Does Jane Eyre ever escape the ‘red room’ or is she metaphorically incarcerated there for the entire novel?

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is locked up in the ‘red room’ early in the novel and there suffers mental anguish and torment because of her cruel treatment by her aunt and family. This treatment seems to haunt her, rather like Pip by Miss Havisham in Great Expectations and even Dickens’ himself by the blacking factory in his own life. Perhaps this place becomes converted into a metaphor for her anger and anguish at her isolation in a world heartless enough to victimise children and anyone who fails to fit in to Victorian Society’s conventional thinking and roles for women?

When I suggest that the room or space becomes a metaphor for an experience , remember that such an experience is experienced by a first person narrator who is  retrospectively trying to make sense of her past and to organise it into a narrative with meaning and message.

Jane Eyre is called ‘Eyre’ because of her agile mind perhaps, her capacity for ‘ire’ signifying anger and her lonely ‘eyrie’  transcendentce over the  banal vagaries of the world.

So a quality question would be: Does Jane Eyre ever really leave the ‘red room’ into which she is placed as a small child?

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