Disgrace

Setting and Literary Aspects

Work with a partner to create a list of literary devices Coetzee uses in

Disgrace. (Make a copy of the doc)
- metaphors
- Anaphoric reference
- Anaphora
- Allusions
- Ambiguity
- Bias
- Catharsis
- Cohesion

After you’ve completed your list, complete the following chart in as much
detail as possible. Use examples and evidence from the text.

Setting

Urban (Cape Town) Pastoral (Eastern

Cape/ Salem)

Physical Setting: -apartments -it’s really cold

(geography, -the university -farmland
neighborhood, houses, -concert -farmers market
rooms. Etc. -Windsor mansions -In driving distance of a
Malene and prof lives town
close - five hectares of land
-davids house has
multiple rooms
-super market
-captain dórenos fish in
is on saint georges st

Temporal Setting: -just after apathide - David returned

Period/Era and ended twice to the farm
duration of time -David has spend a during the novel
large portion of his life - Before the novel
there he had not visited
- much
- Lucy had lived
there for a while
- A few months

Psychological Setting: -dissatisfied -tied down

Relationships among -mondain -free
characters there, how -tense -hostile
characters feel about -progressive -slow
the place, interactive - -Romanticized
space (kinds of -Old fashioned
interactions that occur
there and psychological
aspects).

After completing your chart, work with your partner to answer the following
question. How do different characters view the pastoral (look up the term
in literature) in the novel? Does Coetzee criticize, question, subvert, or
support this view?