"Will you walk this way, ma'am?" said the girl; and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me,
contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured; when I could see,
however, a cosy and agreeable picture presented itself to my view. (Jane Eyre, Chapter 11, pp.63-64)
In the excerpt above, the brightness of the fire symbolizes the
to be discovered at Thornfield.
Victorian domesticity
security
familial warmth
O passion