Tess is the last of a decayed aristocratic line, unfitted for the modern
world
Tess in in thrall to her ancestors, as symbolised by her physical
resemblance to the d'Urberville portraits
Tess seems to have her father's pride and her mother's looks
Alec, with his 'new' money, seems better fitted to the emerging
Victorian industrial capitalist society
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