What Bessie’s song meant to Jane Eyre

Yet distant and soft the night breeze is blowing, Clouds there are none, and clear stars beam mild, God, in His mercy, protection is showing, Comfort and hope to the poor orphan child.

The red room incidence increased Jane Eyre’s threshold for pain, suffering, humiliation, and introduced her to an instrument named terror; which became an indispensable part of Jane Eyre’s character. Listening to Bessie’s songs was a delightful experience for Jane usually ,an everyday ritual; but every word that came out of Bessie’s mouth the next morning induced the terror aroused by the ‘square room’. The words took shape of the happenings of the night and made her relive the torturous night through Bessie's words. the words ‘distant and soft night breeze blowing’ reeked of the cold in the red room because fire wasn’t usually lit in the room. The years of abandonment of the room added to the cold because it did not have the warmth provided by material furnishings. She could feel the pain inflicted by the cold, in addition to the emptiness inflicted by the cold. The words  ’clouds there are none’ permeated the loneliness that entrapped her; for there was no one to draw support from, no one from any of the rooms in this house, in the ones next door or in the skies above. The azure skies were plain and placid; lacking emotion or passion thus further adding to her sorrow. Her ‘forlorn depression’ made her think about the atrocities done by her cousins and Mrs.Reed when ‘clear stars beam mild’  hits the room; described as a beam of light in the novel . This light frightens her but she is to no one’s mercy. She screams and screams; Bessie and Mrs.Abott inquire about her but to her dismay Mrs.Reed  locks her again. This embodies the ‘protection’ this poor vulnerable character needs; and how she has no companions and saviors but God.