Disgrace: A Grave For Lurie’s Perspectives David Lurie was part of the white South Africa, a typical representative of the European settles. This factor made him enjoyed a life full of social privileges and distinctions because his race, position and occupation. At that point of his life the only important matter for him was sexual pleasure as part of his perverted life. However, it did not last for too long. Just after he admit his guilt and immorality, he was forced to face a life of disgrace and shame. Since then, Lurie’s perspectives started to fall to the floor and he had to see this new dark world from another point of view. Disgrace not only describes the darkness of post-apartheid South Africa, it also challenges David 's perspectives
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The relationship between her and David was perfect just before her rape. However, it changed dramatically when David and Lucy’s problem solving to this tragedy did not match very well. From this moment, Lurie’s perspectives began to turn around against himself. David tried to convince Lucy to report her rape but she preferred to keep her privacy and deal with the shame and disgrace. Her thoughts were different to her father 's thoughts because she belonged to the new white South Africa. At that point, Lucy was convinced about their place on the new South Africa where blacks were playing the leading role. “... what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, another place it might held to be a public matter. But in this place, at this time, it is not. It is my business, mine alone.” David was forced to stand on the outside as he watches Lucy go through the fear and depression that the rape brought to her, unable to offer any help. In addition, he had to suffer how the white south African society were forced to live oppressed and with fear of blacks. David 's image of his old white South Africa was disappearing little to little and white power were getting on hand of black …show more content…
David had not anything else to loose. He had to pay for his own mistakes and life give him a good lesson. Her daughter closely suffered rape and shame and he could not offer any help. He had to fight against racial tensions to finally accept a new order: the blacks. His thoughts and perspectives were challenged to finally find his purpose on life disposing death dog bodies.
Works Cited
Mohapatra, Nandita. "Politics of race in J.M. Coetzee 's Disgrace." Notes on Contemporary Literature 41.3 (2011). Literature Resource Center. Web. 1 Feb. 2016.
Longmuir, Anne. "Coetzee 's Disgrace." Explicator 65.2 (Winter 2007): 119-121. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 305. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Literature Resource Center. Web. 17 Jan. 2016.
Coetzee, J M. Disgrace. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
The relationship between her and David was perfect just before her rape. However, it changed dramatically when David and Lucy’s problem solving to this tragedy did not match very well. From this moment, Lurie’s perspectives began to turn around against himself. David tried to convince Lucy to report her rape but she preferred to keep her privacy and deal with the shame and disgrace. Her thoughts were different to her father 's thoughts because she belonged to the new white South Africa. At that point, Lucy was convinced about their place on the new South Africa where blacks were playing the leading role. “... what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, another place it might held to be a public matter. But in this place, at this time, it is not. It is my business, mine alone.” David was forced to stand on the outside as he watches Lucy go through the fear and depression that the rape brought to her, unable to offer any help. In addition, he had to suffer how the white south African society were forced to live oppressed and with fear of blacks. David 's image of his old white South Africa was disappearing little to little and white power were getting on hand of black …show more content…
David had not anything else to loose. He had to pay for his own mistakes and life give him a good lesson. Her daughter closely suffered rape and shame and he could not offer any help. He had to fight against racial tensions to finally accept a new order: the blacks. His thoughts and perspectives were challenged to finally find his purpose on life disposing death dog bodies.
Works Cited
Mohapatra, Nandita. "Politics of race in J.M. Coetzee 's Disgrace." Notes on Contemporary Literature 41.3 (2011). Literature Resource Center. Web. 1 Feb. 2016.
Longmuir, Anne. "Coetzee 's Disgrace." Explicator 65.2 (Winter 2007): 119-121. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 305. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Literature Resource Center. Web. 17 Jan. 2016.
Coetzee, J M. Disgrace. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.