Red Room

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it were really happening.

Noticing that when speaking of the light Jane saw, Bronte writes "it glided up to the ceiling" (pg.16) this immediately made me think of a bird. When a bird is trapped in a room (as Jane is) it flies around, swooping, falling and frantically beating its wings and sure enough, a few lines down, just before Jane breaks down and runs to the door, Bronte writes "a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings"(pg.16) . All of this leads in with the idea of ghosts and spirits and angels which float and glide inside the room.

When Jane is thinking, the sentences are very long, simulating a train of thought where one idea runs into another, but when Bronte describes Jane's fear she uses incredibly short phrases "My heart beat thick, my head grew hot...something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated; endurance broke down"(pg.16) The commas almost make the reader take a breath at each sentence and makes the reader read the passage faster and ...

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