South Africa is one of the greatest country of our planet located in the southern part of Africa. It is a country that has left its mark in recent world history. It is well known by its famous personalities as it was ex-president Nelson Mandela, a politician/ human right fighter. South Africa has also been the inspiration for many scientific studies, novels, books, articles and films. Among these famous novels we find a pieces of art called Disgrace written by the controversial author John Maxwell Coetzee. This magnificent work takes us through the unknown South Africa. Coetzee shows us how the struggles between race affected an entire culture. Lucy, one of key character of Disgrace, represent the brutality and anarchy suffered by many white
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Human rights are basic for any race regardless its color, sex and religion; however, this has apparently had been a blurry subject to some power empire -like in this case British - that had as main source of slaves South Africa. This briefly past history helps us to understand why there was so much anger among black population towards whites as Lucy said, "It was so personal, it was done with such personal hatred. That was what stunned me more than anything. The rest was expected. But why did they hate me so? I had never set eyes on them” (p. 66). Black people’s human rights were denied, they were segregated and now after the fall of the apartheid there was a possible window for vengeance. Lucy was assaulted by three young African man that rape her. She didn’t want to go to the police and claim charges against them. She refused because she didn’t want to fall in a political controversy. In a such a way, what Coetzee highlighted in this specific situation of his novel was the human rights being assault toward white people and the fear originated by the new political system. Aside of Lucy’s suspicion that the system was not going to do anything to punish they three guys, she was also afraid. Sociological impacts were significant; human rights violated by both sides, the right to be safe was no guaranteed as we can
Human rights are basic for any race regardless its color, sex and religion; however, this has apparently had been a blurry subject to some power empire -like in this case British - that had as main source of slaves South Africa. This briefly past history helps us to understand why there was so much anger among black population towards whites as Lucy said, "It was so personal, it was done with such personal hatred. That was what stunned me more than anything. The rest was expected. But why did they hate me so? I had never set eyes on them” (p. 66). Black people’s human rights were denied, they were segregated and now after the fall of the apartheid there was a possible window for vengeance. Lucy was assaulted by three young African man that rape her. She didn’t want to go to the police and claim charges against them. She refused because she didn’t want to fall in a political controversy. In a such a way, what Coetzee highlighted in this specific situation of his novel was the human rights being assault toward white people and the fear originated by the new political system. Aside of Lucy’s suspicion that the system was not going to do anything to punish they three guys, she was also afraid. Sociological impacts were significant; human rights violated by both sides, the right to be safe was no guaranteed as we can