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, Charlotte finally let Jane saw Bertha Mason’s face in the dream at the first time, “It seemed a woman, tall and large, with thick and dark hair hanging long down her back. I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether grown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell. Fearful and ghastly to me, I never saw a face like it! It was a discoloured face—it was a savage face. I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments! The face was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the black eyebrows widely rose over the bloodshot eyes. It reminded me the foul German spectre—the Vampire. ” In the novel, Charlotte described Bertha Mason Like this “In the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran backwards and forwards. What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at the first sight. It grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face.” Under the author’s pen, Bertha Mason could not be distinguished difficultly that she ever was a wild beast or a person, even was “ a wild beast covered with clothing ” , led a bestial life—inhuman, sluttish and crazy. Compared with Bertha Mason, Jane was shaped to a new female of the empire in the novel—aggressive, strong and ambitious. She was well-informed, strong-willed And militant when she was a child. But most important, there concealed an unusual heart under her mediocre look. She liked to dream and desired passion. The trace of the strength was carved on her face and the thought flied to here and there the entire world. The mind rippled “The rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.” These chimeras made Jane desired to become famous, she believed “The real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.” In the novel, Jane certainly was full of fight, struggled against the life bravely, and sought after the ideal steady; she was the knight of the empire in the period of blood and fire. (Charlotte Bronte,34-41) These descriptions above, the author made an opponent relation: the antagonism between human being and the beast, the lunatic and the brain, the world and the hell. In this antagonism, we could discern western intelligentsia’s imperialistic consciousness. In the course of built the cultural system for themselves, they subconsciously oppressed the unknown variety that related to Europe. Therefore, the third world women were colonized constantly and built a powerless and homogeneous community. They were only acted as the potential victims of the special culture and social economic system of the colony. Compared with first world women, they were foreign. As Memoranda Mohan what he pointed out, this is a narration of the dual colony so that made a contrast between the juvenility of third world women and the maturity of first world women. Third world women were poor, uncultured, and traditional and they were willing to be a conventional housewife. But the western women were rich, educated, modern and they could decide what things they could do .They also could control the