The Theme Of David Lurie's Disgrace

David must pretend, not just for the remainder of the novel, but for the next forty years, to be ignorant of Frank’s crimes, and much of what is happening because his parents do not realise that he has

The Scarlet Letter and the Monica Lewinsky Scandal are stories about mistakes and their repercussions. In both stories, we focus on women having an affair with a man and the backlash that is received for doing so, but we also are asked whether the punishment they receive is necessary. The women are destroyed by what transpires and so, and so we must find a solution to these problems.

Being called a disgrace can be hurtful, but are you actually one? In the book,

The description of their relationship draws on the language of navigation and discovery. She is seen as “undiscovered country” p.32 and David is a “battered vessel”. The narrator suggests there is no map for love

Both these things results in David asking many questions. David takes an interest in this girl and does many things to meet her. He goes out of his way just to make time for her, but the question is why. It could be that he truly likes her, however if this is true then how come this is so sudden. He has hated deviations his

Sophie allows for doubt to pierce its way into David’s life for the first time. At the start of the novel, when David first meets Sophie, he gets an insight into a deviant’s life. She has proven to be the first blow to efficiently impact David’s thoughts and make him question the authenticity of his society’s belief system. “It is hind-sight that enables me to fix that as the day when my first small doubts started to germinate.”

Throughout the novel, Wyndham expresses how acceptance of the true image creates an isolating environment for individuals with opposing ideas. As David grows up, he realizes that there is absolutely no respect

Throughout this quarter we have read many books and many genres, at first glance they don’t seem to have any intertwining themes or ideas. Yet when you dig deeper than face value you can see that there is many underlying themes that the average reader might easily overlook. Shame is an overall human element that is seen all throughout; The Things They Carried, the Fifth Child, and Pocatello. Shame is the key to good literature, it is what drives the other emotions, and without shame people would not be people.

When David pounces on Gordon, head of the Fringes, for making Rosalind feel uncomfortable, David is thrown out of the Fringes by Gordon’s guards, with orders to kill David if he is seen in the Fringes again; this leaves Rosalind and Petra trapped in Gordon’s encampment. However, with the help of Sophie, David’s childhood friend, David goes back to the Fringes and hides in her cave. From there, David sends think-pictures to Rosalind and Petra telling them that he is in safe hands, and that he is coming to save them from Gordon’s encampment. With the intent to save Petra and Rosalind, David is about to leave the cave with a spear. Sophie sees David’s intentions and informs him that he must stay in the cave. That is because there would be an alarm if he were to be seen. Trying to take the place of David to rescue Rosalind and Petra, she adds that no one will take any notice of her, even if they do see her. As a result, David “laid the spear down [...]” (173). This shows a hint of David’s co-operation with Sophie since he lays his “spear down” after hearing Sophie’s reasoning, and shows how he is changing his decisions of going. David however tells Sophie that he still wants to go, in return Sophie explains how it would only increase the risk, and that he did not know the place. With that said, Sophie leaves David inside the cave and goes to rescue

The human experience is a fragile and funny thing. More generally, biological beings want and feel a need to belong. Yet, humans, as developed and advanced as they may seem, go out of their way to prevent themselves from doing just that. The short story “Apology”, by Brad Watson conveys this message through a depressing narrative. In it, is a letter, or set of letters written to his supposed ex-wife whom one can surmise has left him. This is a reaction to the main character’s drunken actions throughout their married life. In addition, Watson displays this sympathetic message through metaphorical and anecdotal means, describing the town in which he has escaped to, experiences in nature, and past memories of his wife and child. Through these heartfelt writings, one can surmise that the main character wants to explore the stubbornness of human nature through his own experiences. In doing so, using themes of self-loathing, nostalgia, alcoholism, depression and more.

The Pulitzer prize-winning play Disgraced explores the difficult topics of race, religion, and identity through the events of an explosive and unforgettable dinner party. The tension in this play is electric and masterfully intertwined with snippets of comic relief. Combine these elements with a set of accomplished actors and the wonderful location of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and you have an excellent thought-provoking and entertaining play. During the performance, I paid specific attention to the acting skills of the performers, the arrangement of the set, the lighting techniques, and the directorial choices, most of which added to the performance as a whole.

The Victorian society in which this novel takes place sets us idealized versions of the woman that Edna Pontellier should be. (Madame Ratignolle, Ms. Reisz, the lovers, the woman in black.)

Staying with Irie, since she’s such a fascinating character, through Feminist Mimetic Criticism in the chapter entitled “The Miseducation of Irie Jones” we see Irie falling into the age-old traps of unrequited love, being overweight and low-self esteem. The concept of a perfect figure solving the problems of low-self esteem and unrequited love is flawed. Smith has labeled the chapter using the term “miseducation” to remind us that Irie’s thinking is skewed because it is based on male concepts of beauty and the female form, not on

David also sees himself as having a great deal of influence on others and prides himself on that fact. When David was walking along the street with a coworker, a girl mistook him for a celebrity and David found it amusing to play along. David’s narration describes that the coworker was not amused by this joke and “avoided [David] for the next six months” (DeLillo 2.14). Once David sees the influence his appearance and pride could have on one coworker, he believes that he

The History of Melissa is a pathetic and interesting example of the soothing hope and consolation that await integrity of conduct, though under the pressure of poignant distress.( Drake 11) Every fiction he has drawn involves the illustration of some important duty, or lays the consequences of some alluring vice. Even incidents which appear to possess a peculiar individuality, are rendered, by the dextrous management of our author. ( Drake 26)