Through the perspective of an unconventional university professor, JM Coetzee's Disgrace addresses transition in post-apartheid South Africa, social acceptance and rape through the father complex -daughter of David Lurie and Lucy Lurie relationship. While living in his daughter's country home, David Lurie's experiences reveal that, despite powerful political reform, crime continues to dominate the African people. Aspects of South African history are used to emphasize racial tension and the transition from a white-dominated to a black-dominated South Africa. Coetzee also suggests the instability of African society by constantly portraying his characters as emotionally incapable of adapting to adverse situations. Although David and Lucy were initially presented as opposites, their value of privacy and refusal to endure public humiliation and shame draw a parallel between the novel's predator and prey. David Lurie eventually evolves from his sexual encounters with Soraya, Melanie, and Bev Shaw by realizing the traumatizing implications of his actions after Lucy's rape. JM Coetzee, a white South African writer, was greatly influenced by his personal experiences while witnessing social barriers. during apartheid. Early in the novel, Coetzee describes the sexual relationship between the protagonist David Lurie and Soraya, a prostitute to whom David habitually indulged every Thursday. “For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, in his opinion, solved the problem of sex quite well” (Coetzee 1). In his mind, though, he didn't put Soraya's thoughts into perspective. He fulfilled his own desires at the expense of another's emotional well-being. Despite Soraya's acceptance of prostitution, her reaction to the war... middle of paper... Originally, David uses his status as a white male in South Africa as leverage and a source of power, however, this tactic quickly it fails and causes him to seek a new lifestyle. Lucy's agricultural life introduces David not only to natural beauty, but also to the strength people have to provide the services they do, such as running a last resort animal rescue center. At the end of his experiences, he learns that he does not belong to the environment he surrounded himself with in the city, but that he enjoys the company of animals and his daughter. Its change in living standards and customs demonstrates the racial impact of apartheid. The connection between Lucy's shame as a victim and David's shame as a rapist demonstrates that both difficulties are flaws. Each aspect of these flaws represents the difficulties of apartheid in South Africa.