During the Victorian era, women also faced undeserved pressures not only from their peers, but from society. In the novel, Brontë reveals the unjust pressures women faced when choosing a husband. Catherine acknowledges that a "marriage to Edgar Linton is still the means through which [she] becomes the 'greatest woman of the neighborhood '" (Brontë 80). It is evident that Catherine, along with most of the women of the Victorian era, bases her marriage off of social class ranking, rather than true love. Catherine 's views represent the same dependent mentality that women of the Victorian era had, in which a women 's self-worth was defined by her
During the Victorian era, women also faced undeserved pressures not only from their peers, but from society. In the novel, Brontë reveals the unjust pressures women faced when choosing a husband. Catherine acknowledges that a "marriage to Edgar Linton is still the means through which [she] becomes the 'greatest woman of the neighborhood '" (Brontë 80). It is evident that Catherine, along with most of the women of the Victorian era, bases her marriage off of social class ranking, rather than true love. Catherine 's views represent the same dependent mentality that women of the Victorian era had, in which a women 's self-worth was defined by her