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David Lurie, the main character in Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee’s redeems himself.
Works Cited
Beyad, Maryam. “Subjection and Survival in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” SAGE Publications, Mar. 2018, p.152-170.
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Meljac, Eric. “Love and "Disgrace": Reading Coetzeein the Light (and Love) of Barthes.”Indiana University Press, Spring. 2011, p. 149-161.
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Oriaku, Remy. “J.M. Coetzee'sDisgraceas an Allegory of the Pain, Frustration, and Disorder of Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Brill Academic Publishers; Brill, 2016, p. 145-160.
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David Lurie, the main character in Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee’s redeems himself. Lurie is
a middle-aged man who is a communications professor at a university in Cape Town, South
Africa. Like any other divorced man of his age, David Lurie has a taste for the better things in
life. His adoration of the female form as a sex object indicates that he is egotistical and
narcissistic. According to Oriaku, “Lurie’s predatory masculinist ways recall the overbearing and
high handed culture of the apartheid era in South Africa” (Oriaku, pp. 150), which hints to the
fact that his behavior towards ladies has been more about the object, the trophy, and the
possession instead of just pleasure. While politically-sanctioned racial segregation made vicious
characters such as Lurie come to be, the novel suggests that blacks during this era kept on being
oppressed and subjected to the betrayals that came before this period (Beyad, pp. 155) His
treatment of Melanie Isaacs, one of his understudies, as a sex object, drives him to leave his post
at the University and for a brief timeframe, live with his daughter, Lucy. All through the novel,
David Lurie is depicted to have similar characteristics to those of...
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