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Tess d'Urbervilles
She discovers she descends form a rich and aristocratic familiy: the d'Urbervilles
She comes to work to the d'Urbervilles and meets Alec d'Urbervilles
Alec rapes her and makes her pregnant
She returns to her village; the son deads early
Tess and Angel
They get marry
When she tells him from her past he goes to Brazil
She suffers and then accepts to become the mistress of Alec d'Urbervilles
She kills Alec
She is arrested on the stone of sacrifice at Stonehenge
Themes
Distorted morality of victorian society
Relativity of moral values
Opposition between man-made laws and nature
Religious belief is constantly questioned
Tess
Very beautiful girl
She embodies the qualities of affection and trust, power of suffering and survival
She represents vulnerability
Alec d'Urbervilles
Rich, immoral man