One of these women, we soon learn, is Jane Eyre, the homely orphan who has lived a life of abuse and poverty. The other woman spends her time on a second level in a red room, obviously mad, but we ...

The new version of “Jane Eyre” hits most of the pleasure centers required of any good “Jane” adaptation. It has the horrible Red Room, the “left rib” speech, the muddy moors.

Jane Eyre is not just a classic, it’s classic young adult! DUBAI 33°C; ... the Jane trapped in the haunted “red room,” the Jane forced to go to the horrible Lowood School.

She punishes Jane by locking her in the Red Room and forbidding anyone to let her out. Mrs Reed idolises her children, John, Georgiana and Eliza, making them selfish, egotistical and arrogant.

Jane is punished by being tied to a chair and locked in the terrifying red room, ... But even acknowledging the problem of Bertha, what Brontë accomplished in Jane Eyre should not be discounted.

Brontë’s Jane is steeped in isolation – here, she barely gets a moment to herself. Joseph Taylor’s high-hatted, high-handed Rochester sticks out a lordly foot to stop Jane leaving the room.

By age 18, Jane Eyre had successively inhabited three houses: Gateshead, ... The red room incident - when Jane imagines that a light she espies gleaming on the wall is the ghost of Mr Reed ...

Charlotte Bronte wrote the novel “Jane Eyre” in the 1800s to address social class tensions, love, identity and feminism. Now in 2016, the University Theatre will present a play that ...

OK, so maybe this is only me, but as I got older I began to see Jane's cousin's abuse and the red room as being synonymous for sexual abuse happening there. Which makes me even angrier. 3.

She punishes Jane by locking her in the Red Room and forbidding anyone to let her out. Mrs Reed idolises her children, John, Georgiana and Eliza, making them selfish, egotistical and arrogant.