symbolic imagery to convey various themes throughout the novel. The most

interesting type of imagery is Bronte's use of fire and ice imagery to develop

the characters of the novel and show the struggle the character of Jane Eyre

goes through. Fire most commonly represents passions. While fire and

passion can provide warmth and comfort, they can also burn. Ice, or water,

symbolizes calm reason, devoid of passion. Ice and reason can provide calm

and soothing comfort, but they to can also burn. Throughout the novel, Jane

goes back and forth between these two temptations, trying to achieve the right

balance between the two, while still preserving her own self.

To develop the character of Jane, Bronte uses a great deal of fire

imagery. This is most evident at Gateshead. The novel opens with Jane

seating herself at the window-seat. She draws shut the red curtains around

her, effectively closing herself off. Jane sees through the window the cold and

gloomy outside world. The winter landscape represents society, cold and

emotionless. The curtains, representing Jane's passionate nature, symbolize

how Jane's fiery personality alienate her from society. A

physical manifestation of what Jane fears she would become if she were

After Jane returns from her time with St. John, she finds Rochester

red-room, she is locking Jane's fiery nature in with the cold emotion that

domestic hearth at Ferndean, shows Jane's success in this unity. The fire

and fury. Jane describes the red room's, "massive pillars of mahogany, hung

that warms the hall, but he is also the fire that beckons Jane's passionate side.

the disengagement of Jane and Rochester. Lightening, a form of fire imagery,

Rochester. This also symbolizes her dousing the flames of passion and shows

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