We live in a world where the classes can merge and people can marry for love. Men and women can go to the same events, own property, and marry whomever they choose; however, it was not always this way. Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice, creates a female character named Elizabeth Bennet. She tells the story of Eliza’s struggles in the lower class, finding a husband, and being a woman in a society where only men can make money and own property. Charlotte Brontë, in Jane Eyre, creates an empowered female character, Jane Eyre, that is abused as a child and cast out because of her lower standing. Brontë continues to explain Jane’s growth in dealing with that abuse and the struggles in finding a husband. In the Victorian Era society is run by classes,
