Abstract Tess, the heroine in Tess of the D'urbevilles, is depicted as a victim of the society
Being a beautiful, innocents honest, sweet-natured, and hard-working country girl, she is easily taken in and abused by the hypocritical bourgeoisie, constantly suppressed by the social comventions and moral values of the day, and eventually executed by the unfair legal system of the society
Her obsolute obedience to Angel as her weakness in character but also is an inevitability in a girl of her upbringing
And most important of all, it is the poverty of the family that forces her to improper relations once and again with Alec, and finally, to his muroler and her execution
On one hand, Tess's fate is personal, because she happens to be so beautiful, so pure, so innocent, so obedient