Bronte uses a wide variety of language features in order to create a suspenseful and tense scene. Firstly, the very name of this dreaded 'red room' sounds dark and evil in itself. Images of blood, haunted houses and ghosts instantly flood my mind when I think of it. After researching the physiological implications of the colour red, I found some important attributes include: strength, basic survival, aggression and strain[1]. This could suggest that there had been a struggle before Mr Reed's death that took place in that room, perhaps a physical fight and a bloody death. Before Jane arrived at the red room, a sense of foreboding was created when the servants were ordered to 'take her away to the red room,' as a punishment. From this command,
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Described as 'remote,' from the heart of the house, and 'chill', as there was 'seldom a fire,' we begin to fear for 10 year old Jane who is left alone in a cold, dark and eerie room, alone with the dead. The reader is then informed about the 'strange little figure,' which Jane personifies, by writing that it starred at her and had 'glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still'. Moving eyes of fear suggest that though death is present in the room, there is still an mysterious life lurking around too. Jane tells us that she observed that Mrs Reed only visited 'at far intervals,' possibly because she didn't want others to know her business there. But Jane has an observant eye and reveals that Mrs Reed is 'visiting a miniature of her deceased husband'. It seems that after 9 years after her husbands death, Mrs Reed still has an obscure and mysterious attachment to husband. There was an eerie silence about the room as it was 'silent' and 'solemn' meaning that young Jane was left alone in silence to contemplate these mysteries, resulting in her thoughts and fears to running wild. Bronte describes this scene in such drastic measures in order to captivate the reader and get them hooked on the book through wanting to know the solved
Described as 'remote,' from the heart of the house, and 'chill', as there was 'seldom a fire,' we begin to fear for 10 year old Jane who is left alone in a cold, dark and eerie room, alone with the dead. The reader is then informed about the 'strange little figure,' which Jane personifies, by writing that it starred at her and had 'glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still'. Moving eyes of fear suggest that though death is present in the room, there is still an mysterious life lurking around too. Jane tells us that she observed that Mrs Reed only visited 'at far intervals,' possibly because she didn't want others to know her business there. But Jane has an observant eye and reveals that Mrs Reed is 'visiting a miniature of her deceased husband'. It seems that after 9 years after her husbands death, Mrs Reed still has an obscure and mysterious attachment to husband. There was an eerie silence about the room as it was 'silent' and 'solemn' meaning that young Jane was left alone in silence to contemplate these mysteries, resulting in her thoughts and fears to running wild. Bronte describes this scene in such drastic measures in order to captivate the reader and get them hooked on the book through wanting to know the solved