Disgrace - Morality of David Lurie - 861 Words

Write an essay in which you explore Lurie’s view of morality. Use examples from the text to support your observations: Morality according to Wikipedia: â€Å"Derived from the Latin word Moralitas which means manner, character, and proper behavior. Moral code is a system of morality and a moral is any one practice or teaching within a moral code. Morality can be synonymous with â€Å"goodness† or â€Å"rightness†.† David Lurie has a mixed sense of morality. On one hand, he sleeps with prostitutes in order to fulfill his sexual needs as they are in his view, something that needs to be fulfilled like any other basic human need and it doesn’t matter how or by whom this need is fulfilled. On the other hand, he is a romanticist and turns everything†¦show more content†¦He does not immediately offer an apology; instead he lusts after the younger sister, Desiree. His moral values are distorted again, because Desiree is still a child at school. He even has thoughts about having the two sisters together: â€Å"The two of them in the same bed: an experience fit for a king†. All over again he becomes the sexual predator, acting almost the same as the man who raped his daughter, Lucy. The morals that David exhibit seems mixed and his moral code blurred. It seems as though David himself is confused by his own moral code, perhaps experiencing an identity crisis. His literary hero, Lord Byron, was a great womanizer who once wrote a poem to El Burlador de Sevilla Don Juan Tenorio, who also followed a life down the same path. David Lurie does know the difference between right and wrong but chooses to go down the wrong path inevitably. His morals are questionable, at times it seems to be completely lost but when it comes to his daughter they seem to be in order. David is a difficult character to analyse - he is the epitome of someone with a mixed view of his own identity and, ultimately, disgrace. List of sources:Show MoreRelatedWaiting For The Barbarians By John Maxwell Coetzee1342 Words   |  6 Pageswas born in Cape Town , Cape Province, Union of South Africa, on 9 February 1940 to African Parents. He has the honour of winning the booker prize twice. The first Booker Prize is for Life Times of Michael K in 1983, and the second one is for Disgrace in 1999. In 2003 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Life And Times Of Michael K,(1983)also won the Prix Etranger Femina Prize. Duskland (1974) was his first published novel . In the Heart of the Country won the C N A prize which isRead MoreA Streetcar Named Desire And Disgrace2563 Words   |  11 Pagesin A Streetcar Named Desire and Disgrace. In A Streetcar Named Desire this destruction takes a variety of forms such as death (shown through Alan s suicide) and the demise of Blanche’s previously expected reputation as a ‘Southern Belle’. Blanche tries to trade sex for commitment, connection and safety. This is the pattern of her life and one that she fails to see as dysfunctional and destructive. Disgrace also presents desire to be a force of destruction. David Lurie’s uncontrollable desires