In Jane Eyre, the author Charlotte Bronte uses symbolism and imagery to express her feeling of constraint and impressment. She is able to demonstrate this melancholic feeling by showing a lamenting tone to limitations.
The window seats from the drawing room that Charlotte Bronte mentions, symbolizes her inaccessible nature that is nevertheless transparent. Bronte describes, “Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view… to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me…” In comparison, by having the windows beside her, one window covered with drapes and one with clear panes, Bronte is able to reflect on both of her feeling of imprisonment and of not having the ability to see what the ‘undraped’ window has in order to
The window seats from the drawing room that Charlotte Bronte mentions, symbolizes her inaccessible nature that is nevertheless transparent. Bronte describes, “Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view… to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me…” In comparison, by having the windows beside her, one window covered with drapes and one with clear panes, Bronte is able to reflect on both of her feeling of imprisonment and of not having the ability to see what the ‘undraped’ window has in order to