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In Jane Austen's day, there were two trends concerning the status and rights of women. One is that many woman writers have been entering into the literary world as novelists continuously since 17th century. The other is women's criticism of the patriarchy, which called for equal status with men, with the same rights. Austen's novel Northanger Abbey reflects the voice of women who were part of these two trends. The first is reflected in the conflict between the sexes arising from women undertaking the intellectual act of writing. Austen, through the relations between Catherine Morland, the innocent heroine, and Henry Tilney, the intellectual hero, suggests indirectly the intellectual status that woman must attain. This is shown in the following two kinds of narrative form between Henry and Catherine. One is Henry's parodic narrative style that he employs when he talks to Catherine, on which he prides himself, along with on his own broad knowledge, and which he uses to tease her. Such an attitude indicates, as was standard in Austen's day, man's intellectual control over woman, and, at the same time, woman's struggle to gain intellectual equality. The other is Catherine's passive and submissive narrative style, which reflects her surrender to Henry's intellectual assertions without any objection. Such an attitude expresses man's dominance in the intellectual sphere, and, at the same time, gives a paradoxical warning that woman must establish herself on an intellectual level, especially as novelists, with independent ideas. The second is reflected critically on the patriarchal society of Jane Austen's day. The personal relations between Catherine and John Thorpe or General Tilney(Henry's father) suggest the social rights women should be given, which is without subordination to man personally and without dependence on him financially. John turns out to be himself patriarchal, with a ‘one-sided way,’ by lying to Catherine, without considering her position and situation, in order to shamelessly make her his wife so as to gain wealth, thinking she is going to be an heiress to Mr. Allen. General Tilney, a typical patriarchal man, tries to impress Catherine with his kindness, and finally takes her to his rebuilt Northanger Abbey, a great mansion, in order to acquire her as his daughter-in-law, also assuming her to be the heir to Mr Allen's property. But on hearing that she is not a heiress, information that transpired when Catherine rejected John, General Tilney suddenly banishes her from the Abbey without a slightest concern. It is clear that John and General Tilney hold woman in low esteem, merely as sources of money, and so they don't hesitate to trample on the human rights of woman. Austen uses this recurring theme from Northanger Abbey as a vehicle for criticizing man's intellectual and social domination over woman, and for advocating woman's intellectual and social equality with man.