Lisa Haff Contemporary Literature Question 4 Passion is usually considered to be an exhilarating and desirable trait however when uncontrolled it can also lead to a dangerous and destructive path It can end up causing devastation and distress for oneself as well as others Salter and Coetzee captured the essence of passion through the characters in both novels Last Night and Disgrace Whether in the form of love hate lust or regret passion played a major role in these two works of literature Salt
Disgrace defined by Webster is to be humiliated by a superior showing or to be a source of shame In J M Coetzees book Disgrace the title is exactly what the book is about a sure disgrace of a professor who has an illicit affair with one of his students which leads to his disgrace where is loses his job and has to leave town to cope with this disgrace The second disgrace is when the main character David Luries daughter Lucy is brutally raped by three men Although two forms of disgrace occur in t