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Title: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee: Notes
Description: Summary of Characters and Symbolisms shown throughout the book, this can help students understand the main points of the story as well as inform them about major characters and their roles.
Description: Summary of Characters and Symbolisms shown throughout the book, this can help students understand the main points of the story as well as inform them about major characters and their roles.
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Disgrace: Study Guide
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“He has never been able to understand what Lucy sees in her; privately he wishes Lucy
would find, or be found by, someone better” (25)
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“Petrus brushes aside the insults
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Maybe one day he
can marry, but not now
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'You will marry whom?'
'I will marry Lucy'” (84)
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“He slows down and pulls off the road
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'Not here
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' He picks up speed
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'I will pronounce the word we have avoided hitherto
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Multiply
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Petrus
● Key Traits
○ Successful black man during the apartheid era
■ Context: Lucy and David discuss about the things he could do in the countryside
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I didn't tell you? The boundary line goes through the dam
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Everything from there to the fence is his…By Eastern Cape standards he is a man of
substance" (32)
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“Then Petrus appears at their side
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I am not any more the dog-man,' which Lucy
chooses to accept as a joke; so all, it appears, is well” (54)
○ Power struggle
■ He decides not to give any clue or expose the identity of the raper
■ Context: David and Lucy are in Petrus’s party and David spots one of the boys who
invaded and raped Lucy
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Petrus breaks off, gives him an impatient glare
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'No, I do not know what this is,' says Petrus angrily
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What is the trouble?'
'He - this thug - was here before, with his pals
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But let him tell you
what it is about
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Function
○ To show that a black succeeding during the Apartheid was possible
■ An example of changing opportunities for blacks
■ Context: Lucy and David discuss about the things he could do in the countryside
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I didn't tell you? The boundary line goes through the dam
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Everything from there to the fence is his…By Eastern Cape standards he is a man of
substance" (32)
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“'I have no intention of involving you in the case, Petrus
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Then we can leave it to the
police to investigate and bring him and his friends to justice
Title: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee: Notes
Description: Summary of Characters and Symbolisms shown throughout the book, this can help students understand the main points of the story as well as inform them about major characters and their roles.
Description: Summary of Characters and Symbolisms shown throughout the book, this can help students understand the main points of the story as well as inform them about major characters and their roles.