Social class plays a very significant role in my main text, "Wuthering Heights" and also in my partner text, "Sons and Lovers", because it helps the reader to determine a sense of the character and plays an important role in the reader finding the true depth of a character. Social class in both novels is determined by the location and origin of the characters, as in "Wuthering Heights" we see that Heathcliff is considered abnormal and known as having a lower social class due to the uncertainty of his origin. Also in "Sons and Lovers" we see the battle and life between a refined woman with middle class aspirations towards a hard working low class miner and their son who discovers a new conflict of loyalties after many years of caring for his mother. The main female characters of the novels, Catherine, Cathy, and Gertrude, have much of the focus of the novels, which shows their difficult decisions based on social class, but the other women, Isabella and Annie, are in many ways non-essential. The novels reflect how women were viewed in the Victorian era, which was inferior to men, thus placing severe limits on women's aspirations. The main female characters in both novels represent frustrated, ambitious women, forced to do and say bad things to climb the social ladder. The stories show their passion which was negatively reviewed in the Victorian era, which shows how important social class was to everyone. In Victorian times social class was decided by who they married and where they lived, and people were judged by what they had, as shown in "Wuthering Heights"; because Catherine decides who to marry based on the man's social status. Wuthering Heights is depicted as a low-card house... middle... rine has just accepted Edgar's marriage proposal and is confessing her true feelings for Nelly. «My love for Linton is like the foliage of the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a little visible, but necessary source of joy.' During the conversation between Catherine and Nelly, Catherine contrasts her love for Edgar, shown as temporal, with that for Heathcliff, shown as eternal, and when she identifies with Heathcliff, she allies herself with a different material which is rocks against foliage and this connects to the natural imagery used in the novel of Catherine and Edgar having different essences, so her decision to marry Edgar comes as a shock to the reader and she only marries Edgar because it would result in her living at Thrushcross Grange which embodies her goal to rise higher up the social class ladder.