Charlotte Bronte uses colour imagery frequently throughout Jane Eyre. In the novel Jane Eyre, colour imagery is used to convey that there are two sides in every character and that the temptation and enclosure of evil is always beckoning and binding. Red imagery, black imagery and white imagery are used in Jane Eyre to emphasize the two different forces battling against one another. Red throughout the novel represents hell and evil and demonstrates the wicked …showed first 75 words of 938 total…

…showed last 75 words of 938 total…personality. These two colours illustrate the temptation and the desire to be bad. White has been used throughout her novel, but more frequently towards the middle of the novel when Jane encounters Helen and befriends her. This white imagery demonstrates the good and pure side of Bronte’s characters. These three colours, red, black and white have been used well to compel the reader to distinguish the two very different forces inside the human being.