Summary:
Bessie and Miss Abbott take Jane to the ‘red-room’.
Jane is locked in the ‘red-room’, she starts to think about her dead Uncle Reed and how he brought her to Gateshead when her parents died…his own dying wish was that his wife promise to raise Jane as one of their own. Jane then begins to think her uncle’s ghost is in the room with her, she thinks he is going to take revenge on his wife for breaking her promise by treating Jane as an outsider. Because she is scared at the thought of a ghost in the room she screams, her aunt ignores her and dismisses the fact something is wrong she believes that Jane is trying to get out of being in trouble and is trying to escape her punishment. Jane then faints.
Themes: Social class – she is treated badly even though she comes from a good family, she has been orphaned so is poor, she is treated as a servant from the Reeds, especially by John Reed. Key themes of Depression, isolation, confinement, segregation, melancholy, despair are increased due to Jane being locked in the ‘red-room’ and fainting
Places: The setting for this chapter is still in Gateshead, but the focus is in the ‘red-room’, where Jane is locked in.
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