Disgrace

Question 1

LINK TO THE TEMPEST

Answer 1

Nature vs nurture - David’s environment made him chauvinist racist

Question 3

Rebellion

Answer 3

David thinks new SA is a disgrace

Question 5

Rebellion

Answer 5

Always a disgrace - rapist to crazy man

Question 6

Rebellion

Answer 6

Bill, best person in book gets cheated on. Lucy gets raped

Question 9

Apartheid

Answer 9

Darkest Africa

Question 10

Apartheid

Answer 10

The wound is alive with white grubs waving their blind heads in the air - will still have an effect in future (reproduction), whites helpless without blacks

Question 12

David

Answer 12

Do you need me here any longer

Question 13

David

Answer 13

Her smile rather than shy - knows what she’s getting into

Question 14

David

Answer 14

Rape, not quite rape - defines himself as an intruder

Question 15

David

Answer 15

The two of them in the same bed: an experience fit for a king - insincere apology

Question 16

David

Answer 16

Anointed - he’s doing her a favor, God like

Question 17

David

Answer 17

Realises fault in raping Melanie after own daughter is raped. Can’t understand why she won’t move

Question 18

David

Answer 18

Choosing Melanie over white Amanda shows desire for power

Question 19

David

Answer 19

Love for dogs mirrors growth - love with heart not for power

Question 20

David

Answer 20

A ready learner, compliant, pliant - sexist, abusive, likes obedience, takes autonomy away

Question 21

David

Answer 21

A mad old man who sits among the dogs singing to himself - disgrace for intellectual to be here

Question 22

David

Answer 22

As an ensemble, remarkably unattractive - tries to find flaws in Bev

Question 23

David

Answer 23

A great deceiver and a great self-deceiver - doesn’t know self, only realists obvious faults later

Question 30

Bildungsroman

Answer 30

Explain - novel with growth

Question 33

Bev shaw

Answer 33

Dumpy, bustling woman with black freckles and no neck - obsession with outside, not inside

Question 34

Bill shaw

Answer 34

What are friends for? - best person in book, gets cheated on

Question 36

Lucy

Answer 36

From the shade of the stope Lucy emerges into the sunlight

Question 37

Lucy

Answer 37

Lucy’s bare toes grip the red earth, leaving clear prints - passion, trailblazer, skills, confidence

Question 38

Lucy

Answer 38

Lighting the way, bearing the offering - she was raped, going to rapist, she’s the offering, reversal, he was alight, she was the offering

Question 39

Lucy

Answer 39

I am prepared to do anything, make any sacrifice, for the sake of peace