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Colonialism is articulated theme in Jane Eyre and it was the cultural milieu of the early Victorians. Jane Eyre participates in the larger ideological project of colonialism - a project by which an imperial national identity was gradually shaped. Bronte attempted to manipulate the three dominant and intimately interwined discourses of the day : Christianity and colonialism and feminism. In this respect, critical connections between Jane's feminist struggle for personal autonomy and colonialism should be studied. Until nowadays positive sisterhood of female characters have been studied by feminist critics. They call Bertha Jane's 'truest and darkest double' and suggest that madwoman even does what Jane want to. Then the madwoman in the attic is thus not only an aspect of Jane's innerperson, but also an extension of her will. So Jane's search for identity through the rhetoric of historical imperialism, her excellence connected with the discourse that the English is superior to others, Bertha's fall in relation to Jane's maturity, her will to emancipate seraglio and relieve the despotic monarch, and Jane's resistance to sati and attempt to reform the sexual discrimination are studied.