I’m going to invite you to do something reckless. “Spend the night with me. Why? Asked Melanie, because you ought to David answers; a women’s beauty does not belong to her alone. It is part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it” (Coetzee 16). With these words, David Lurie in the novel “Disgrace” smoothly speaks his true thoughts about women. Through David’s experience in his book, a fifty-two year old professor who finds pleasure in sex through monetary value or an affair with a young student. David Lurie exploits women sexually much like the power structure of South Africa exploited its non-white citizens. When he first appears in the novel, David Lurie is a love outcast, who has solved his problem of sex rather
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Nandita Mohapatra states in her article that David Lurie is part of the white South Africa society with its perverted, twisted values where affection is not love but merely “its cousin.” In other words David represents the white European men that settled in South Africa and mistreated South Africa’s non-white citizens. Even when I remember what I was taught about slavery and how black women where “belly warmers” for the white men during those times, it seems to me that David maybe grew up around this type of influence of how women should be treated. My observation between David and Soraya led me to understand that in the field of sex David does it for the intensity not for the passion. My evidence for this theory surfaces in the following passage: “Intercourse between Soraya and himself must be, he imagines, rather like the copulation of snakes: lengthy, absorbed, but rather abstract, rather dry, even at its hottest” …show more content…
J.M. Coetzee points out the strong change in South Africa; the hatred plays an important role for the non-white citizens in South Africa. In my own opinion David’s sexually treatment to women is the reason for his own disgrace. His sexual way of exploiting towards women implies that white South African benefits to the desires of men to explore and lay claim to women. In other words white South Africa believes a woman beauty should be shared, I believe that my beauty is my own and it’s up to me to decide who or with whom I share it
Nandita Mohapatra states in her article that David Lurie is part of the white South Africa society with its perverted, twisted values where affection is not love but merely “its cousin.” In other words David represents the white European men that settled in South Africa and mistreated South Africa’s non-white citizens. Even when I remember what I was taught about slavery and how black women where “belly warmers” for the white men during those times, it seems to me that David maybe grew up around this type of influence of how women should be treated. My observation between David and Soraya led me to understand that in the field of sex David does it for the intensity not for the passion. My evidence for this theory surfaces in the following passage: “Intercourse between Soraya and himself must be, he imagines, rather like the copulation of snakes: lengthy, absorbed, but rather abstract, rather dry, even at its hottest” …show more content…
J.M. Coetzee points out the strong change in South Africa; the hatred plays an important role for the non-white citizens in South Africa. In my own opinion David’s sexually treatment to women is the reason for his own disgrace. His sexual way of exploiting towards women implies that white South African benefits to the desires of men to explore and lay claim to women. In other words white South Africa believes a woman beauty should be shared, I believe that my beauty is my own and it’s up to me to decide who or with whom I share it