Discussion 200 words Prompt:1. Post a working approach for the topic you chose. 2. Write a brieffew sentences explaining why you chose this topic.

I have to choose one topic from above information

Choose a Topic and Approach for your Literary Essay

Subject:

Choosing your literary essay topic and the approach you will take on Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee is the first step to writing the paper due as the last assignment of this module.

Topics/ approaches (Focus your thesis on only one of the following, though some may overlap):

1. Analysis of one of these characters: Lucy Lurie, Melanie Isaacs or Petrus.

   Example:Analyze not only the chosen character's personality, but also what rolethe character played in advancing the overall theme of the novel.Please state what the overall message/ theme of the novel is.

2. The protagonist's understandingof the nature of the conflict to be resolved and the hurdles to beovercome. What does David Lurie get to understand about his misuse ofpower? How does he arrive at this insight?

   Example:It could be hope for change, both in South Africa (the acknowledgmentof past crimes committed and of how the powerful can continue to beoblivious to their own oppression of others) and in David Lurie. OR:the disgrace David Lurie has to suffer through the affair with a studentin order for him to understand his own misuse of power, and how thisrecognition echoes the disgrace and oppression South African citizens ofcolor have suffered through apartheid and its aftermath.

3. The function of setting to reinforce theme and characterization

   Example:post-apartheid South Africa as a setting is most important in thenovel. Your outside sources would be the history of apartheid and thelasting consequences and conditions it has created.

4. The use of literary devices to communicate theme: imagery, metaphor, symbolism, foreshadowing, irony

   Example:Symbolism — Analyze what the concept of dogs represents in this story.OR: Determine if David Lurie represents the old, white South Africa,while Lucy represents the new white South Africa.

5. Point of view: The author's focus on the perspectives of one or more characters.

   Example:The difference between David's and Lucy's perspectives on how torespond to the social problems in post-apartheid South Africa and howthat fits with the author's theme or main message.

6. Careful examination of one ormore central scenes and its/their crucial role in plot development,resolution of conflict, and exposition of theme.

   Example:Analyze one or more scenes in which hope that change for the better ispossible through a character's insight of his misuse of power, hisremorse and subsequent actions to perhaps achieve redemption orself-awareness.