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Rory O’Sullivan Red Room SAR In the novel JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte, I felt that in chapter two that the red room was a very dark place where bad things happen. The red kind of symbolizes blood, hell, and torture. The door locks from the outside, that itself is just odd. “O aunt! Have pity! Forgive me! I cannot endure it—let me be punished some other way! I shall be killed if—” This quote shows what Jane thought about the red room and how much torture it was. She even said she would rather get punished any other way. The red room sounds like a very dark and scary place that nobody should have to witness.

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