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Social Class In 19th Centery England

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In 19th centery England there were two different levels of the social class. Tess Durbyfield is an unstable representation of the upper and lower social classes. Tess does not fit into the field labor and undereducated ways of the lower class, but her financial restraints do not allow her to move up in social rankings.
In the beginning of the story, us readers find ouit that tess is of an ancient family that is apart of the upper class, the D’Urbervilles. The futher we read the more we see tess’s social conflict of trying to fit in with her social ranking. Tess started out as a poor farm girl who found out she was of a long blood line of old money, but her grace and beauty intelled us that she was of something more all along.
Furthermore, Tesss

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