" They went, shutting the door, and locking it behind them. The red-room was a square chamber...This room was chill" (Bronte, 12).
Red is a color that means many different things. It can refer to passion, lust, love, or even hatred. These reasons are why it is so peculiar that the room is described as "chill". When a person thinks of the color red, they normally associate it with warmth. Bronte is developing a setting that has much more meaning to the book then the reader can yet decipher from the text. Jane is being locked in a room that is completely colored red, and that room is cold.
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so... what could Bronte be saying here...
Molly, with this string of concordances I'm getting this 'almost but not quite finished' feeling -- this sense of 'one more sentence or maybe two would connect the dots and make it more clear' -- in this one, what is Bronte suggesting by having the cold room painted warm .. does that idea then play out through the rest of the novel?
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