Disgrace, by J.M Coetzee, is a story about a man named David Lurie, but it's more on the story of a victim that was raped. Lucy Lurie, daughter of David Lurie, is a white, middle-aged, lesbian woman who was violated by three African-American men. This experience traumatizes her and changes her personality and perspectives. The trauma also sets back the relationship she has with her father. She demands neither sympathy nor justice for what has happened to her. What kind of resolve would a woman, who is a victim of rape, have to attempt a normal life after what she's endured? Throughout the novel she shows how she handles the after-effects of the event, she shows her lingering strength by staying on the farm where it happened. and continues
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"Her silence ends when she discovers that she is pregnant with a child she refuses to abort" says Laura Wright. Lucy tells her father that she is pregnant from the incident, he is left in confusion since he had presumed she’d had gotten an abortion. She responds to him saying "Do you think I hate Children? Should I choose against the child because of who its father is?" (Disgrace, p.198). She is willing to keep the baby no matter who the father is. To her it doesn't seem fair to have an abortion because she wants the child to live and grow even though it will not know the concept of a true father in its life. She accepted her fate and does nothing about it, as if she knew it was …show more content…
Lucy, although did not see it as blackmail, took it upon herself to marry Petrus, continue her old normal life in the farm, and forget about the rape. Her father can not believe that she is accepting all this and says “How humiliating, Such high hopes, and to end like this” and she replies “Yes, I agree, it is humiliating. Perhaps that is what I must learn to accept. With nothing. No cards, no weapons, no property, no rights, no dignity. Like a dog.” (Disgrace, p.205). Referring herself to a dog that just needs to accept its fate and live with it, and after such a vicious attack, one is never truly themselves again. She also refers to herself as a dead person and does not know yet what will bring her back to life. Most women don’t accept what has happened to them and get the police involved to find the man that raped them, Lucy is one strong woman to accept what has been done to her and still attempt her normal life. To the point where she sacrificed herself just to make peace with the ones around her, it is truly amazing how she had the strength to handle all that has happened, even though she is not the same woman she once
"Her silence ends when she discovers that she is pregnant with a child she refuses to abort" says Laura Wright. Lucy tells her father that she is pregnant from the incident, he is left in confusion since he had presumed she’d had gotten an abortion. She responds to him saying "Do you think I hate Children? Should I choose against the child because of who its father is?" (Disgrace, p.198). She is willing to keep the baby no matter who the father is. To her it doesn't seem fair to have an abortion because she wants the child to live and grow even though it will not know the concept of a true father in its life. She accepted her fate and does nothing about it, as if she knew it was …show more content…
Lucy, although did not see it as blackmail, took it upon herself to marry Petrus, continue her old normal life in the farm, and forget about the rape. Her father can not believe that she is accepting all this and says “How humiliating, Such high hopes, and to end like this” and she replies “Yes, I agree, it is humiliating. Perhaps that is what I must learn to accept. With nothing. No cards, no weapons, no property, no rights, no dignity. Like a dog.” (Disgrace, p.205). Referring herself to a dog that just needs to accept its fate and live with it, and after such a vicious attack, one is never truly themselves again. She also refers to herself as a dead person and does not know yet what will bring her back to life. Most women don’t accept what has happened to them and get the police involved to find the man that raped them, Lucy is one strong woman to accept what has been done to her and still attempt her normal life. To the point where she sacrificed herself just to make peace with the ones around her, it is truly amazing how she had the strength to handle all that has happened, even though she is not the same woman she once