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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.