Disgrace is a novel by John Maxwell Coetzee about a South African professor and writer named David Lurie, who loses his job and dignity after refusing to apologize for an affair with a student. He goes to live with his daughter on a farm but, as soon as he begins to feel comfortable again, the farm is attacked, his daughter raped and he is assaulted. He remains on the farm to keep his daughter safe, disillusioned and unable to find redemption.
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
Utopia was create by More as a way to identify and discuss the social problems that were taking place in England during his life Through much thought More through his humanistic viewpoint attempts to create the illusion of a perfect society in which civil laws are upheld through moderation and respect two principles which he holds to be extremely important Through this writing and his Catholic religious believes the criticism that More has about England at this time can all be related back to t
Lena Grove a pregnant teenager has made her way to Mississippi in search of her babys father She hitches a ride into the small town of Jefferson which is home to a planing mill One of the workers at the mill Joe Christmas is a brooding racially ambiguous man who appeared suddenly at the mill one day in search of a job After gaining employment he was soon joined at the mill by another man named Joe Brown The two formed a partnership making and selling liquor illegally and eventually quit their j
V for Vendetta Dystopian futures in society often spring from conflict in society This often results in a vision of an authoritarian or totalitarian government and the resulting conflict that the two forms of government cause The graphic novel V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore is no exception This novel was also adapted into a movie In the process of adaptation the directors of the film version attempted to maintain the overall characters and anarchist themes of the graphic novel however the
James Hursts short story The Scarlet Ibis evokes memories from Hurts childhood and the events leading to the death of his malformed younger brother as a result of being pushed past his natural limit Hurst expresses his ideas of the tragedy and miracles pride can emit by stating that pride is a terrible wonderful thing a seed that bears two vines life and death Hurst 347 The narrators constant shame of his deformed sibling causes him to act on selfish impulse the result of these actions creates
Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin Ireland to two accomplished parents his mother being a respected poet and translator and his father a knighted surgeon Wilde won prizes in classics throughout his youth and received prestigious scholarships to Trinity and then Magdalen College Oxford where he won further prizes for his poetry While at Oxford he came under the influence of aestheticians Walter Pater and John Ruskin and joined them in becoming a key figure in the founding of the Aesthetic Mo
Waiting for Freedom In the story Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros discusses the issues of living life as a married woman through a character named Cleofilas a character who is married to a man who abuses her physically and mentally Cisneros reveals the way the culture puts a difference between a male and a female men above women Cisneros has been famous about writing stories about the latino culture and how women are treated she explain what they go through as a child teen and when they ar
The Rise of Racism Maycomb County Alabama is a town against a black man Tom Robinson who is on trial for raping a white girl Mayella Ewell The whole Maycomb County is a good example of an influence to why kids show racism in To kill a mockingbird Cecil Jacobs is a bully at Scouts elementary school who declared Scouts dad a defender of a nigger in the school yard before the announcement of the trial Cecil Jacobs displays what Maycomb County adults and community is doing in spreading word and inf