ABSTRACT
The present paper focuses on the study of J.M.Coetzee’s one of the most significant novels, Disgrace with special reference to the animal ethics. The paper argues that Coetzee demonstrates the animals as an important ecological and ethical feature. It also marks the connection between ecological vision and Coetzee’s ethical attention to the ‘non-human other’. The paper examines how animal act as a metaphor for the cruel treatment we impose on each other and the suppressed guilt associated with the discrimination of apartheid. Among all animals inhabiting Coetzee’s fiction, dogs in particular have a noteworthy presence. The paper shades some light on the novel to shows how an ecological sense of Coetzee is also evocative of the crammed conditions of black African homelands.
KEY WORDS Ecology, Ethics, Ecocriticism, Post colonialism, Postmodernism, Non-human
____________________________________________________________________________
The ecosystem is an association of the animals, plants, and microorganisms that withstand themselves in the same area or environment by performing the activities of living, feeding, reproducing and communicating. It is an association that exists between all the components of an environment. It includes plants, animals, fish (marine life), soil, water & people.
The
…show more content…
As in commonly the case in literary works, and indeed in everyday speech, animals provide the standard for the description of human experience. Thus, David Lurie, one of the important characters of the novel, very promptly announces that the ‘totem’ of his sexual character is ‘the snake’ (Coetzee.2). This early shallow anthropological reference of the symbol immediately reminds us of how deep the animal correlation does in human self-understanding. This kind of animal writings has been fully acknowledged by critics. They have been established as essential elements in Coetzee’s