Two instrumental contributions to Victorian literature were Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Both of these works contributed relatively new perspectives on Victorian social class and gender roles through their main characters, Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice and Catherine of her respective works. These characters, in addition to sharing similar messages about gender equality and women's rights, share unusual analytical tendencies but differ in their values ​​and criteria for marriage and in their general degree of deviation from the typical Victorian woman. Although both Catherine and Elizabeth Bennet are highly analytical, Jane tends to reflect more on herself introspectively while Elizabeth prides herself on being a good judge of character. When Jane antagonizes her cousin John Reed as a child, her aunt, as punishment, locks her alone in the "red room," a bedroom on her aunt's estate where Jane's Uncle Reed died. Jane thus describes her feelings while locked in the red room: “What consternation of soul was mine on that sad afternoon! How my whole brain was in turmoil, and my whole heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, in what dense ignorance was the mental battle fought! I couldn't answer the incessant internal question: why did I suffer like this; now, after – I won't say how many years, I can see it clearly” (Bronte 29; vol. 1 chap. 2). On the other hand, Elizabeth's analyzes are oriented towards interactions between people. For example, from across the ballroom, he monitors and analyzes Mr. Collins shyly approaching Mr. Darcy: "And with a low bow he left her to attack Mr. Darcy, whose reception he eagerly observed his advances, and whose astonishment at being so ...... middle of paper ...... and: divergence from Askins 3 the stereotypical Victorian housewife Although both Catherine and Elizabeth Bennet are highly analytical, Jane tends to reflect more about herself introspectively while Elizabeth prides herself on being a good judge of character. When Jane as a child stands up to her cousin John Reed, her aunt, as punishment, locks her alone in the "red room", a bedroom. bed at her aunt's estate where Jane's Uncle Reed died. Jane describes her feelings while locked in the red room this way: “What a consternation of soul was my whole being in turmoil! brain, and all the heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, in what dense ignorance was the mental battle fought! I couldn't answer the incessant internal question: why did I suffer like this; now, after – I won't say how many years, I can see it clearly” (Bronte 29; vol. 1 chapter.. 2).