Disgrace
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Professor: K.W
Class: English 1C
January 13, 2015
David Lurie In “Disgrace”
David Lurie in the novel “Disgrace” by J.M. Coetzee is a professor at the University in Cape Town, which is part of the South Africa. He had divorced twice already and now living alone. All of the sudden, he lost almost everything in his life after revealing that in public and school committee that how he almost forced one of his students in his romantic literature at the University to have sex. He lost everything that he had or thought he had, such as, his job, his relaxing life, he 's proud of being artistic success, and even his power of protection of his own daughter. He was too proud to accept his mistake and he didn’t even apologized to the committee of his misbehave when the committee asked him to save himself from disgrace by admitting to his mistake and apologize properly to the student’s family and to the public. Instead, he said; “very well. I took advantage of my position vis-a-vis Ms Isaac. It was wrong, and I regret it. Is that good enough for you?” (80). In the novel “Disgrace”, Coetzee has developed a very interesting issue in our society that people with either money or power are making a big mistake and they don’t apologize even after they get busted unless they have no choice. By the end of the novel, I strongly believe that the main character “David Lurie” in the novel accept his immoral life and recognized that he has no power in his life and he lost all his abilities because of his own behavior. I got convinced that he has changed because he finally could understand his mistakes and consequences of his mistakes. Many events happened during his new chapter of life that he finally recognized what is happening to him and what he had to do to stop the all disasters happen to him and his daughter. He tried his best in several occasions to show it and prove it that he has changed.
After many bad consequences from his behaviors and immoralities like losing his job
Professor: K.W
Class: English 1C
January 13, 2015
David Lurie In “Disgrace”
David Lurie in the novel “Disgrace” by J.M. Coetzee is a professor at the University in Cape Town, which is part of the South Africa. He had divorced twice already and now living alone. All of the sudden, he lost almost everything in his life after revealing that in public and school committee that how he almost forced one of his students in his romantic literature at the University to have sex. He lost everything that he had or thought he had, such as, his job, his relaxing life, he 's proud of being artistic success, and even his power of protection of his own daughter. He was too proud to accept his mistake and he didn’t even apologized to the committee of his misbehave when the committee asked him to save himself from disgrace by admitting to his mistake and apologize properly to the student’s family and to the public. Instead, he said; “very well. I took advantage of my position vis-a-vis Ms Isaac. It was wrong, and I regret it. Is that good enough for you?” (80). In the novel “Disgrace”, Coetzee has developed a very interesting issue in our society that people with either money or power are making a big mistake and they don’t apologize even after they get busted unless they have no choice. By the end of the novel, I strongly believe that the main character “David Lurie” in the novel accept his immoral life and recognized that he has no power in his life and he lost all his abilities because of his own behavior. I got convinced that he has changed because he finally could understand his mistakes and consequences of his mistakes. Many events happened during his new chapter of life that he finally recognized what is happening to him and what he had to do to stop the all disasters happen to him and his daughter. He tried his best in several occasions to show it and prove it that he has changed.
After many bad consequences from his behaviors and immoralities like losing his job
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