![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Lucy will also compare being raped to death, however, is a more disturbing way: This passage, incidentally, is also the first time where the audience is presented with the victim’s perspective of rape. Even though the story is commonly viewed as being told from David’s point of view (Stott 350), the attitudes of the narrator and the main character are opposing, which is highlighted when David is characterized as an “intruder” because of his actions. Lurie opposes this term, even though he is unable to find a different word: “Not rape, not quite that, but undesired nevertheless, undesired to the core.Īs though she has decided to go slack, die within herself for the duration” (Coetzee 25). When he takes her in his arms, her limbs crumple like a marionette’s” (Coetzee 24). The sexual act between David and his student Melanie is never defined as rape, despite the girl’s apparent lack of interest and consent: “she is too surprised to resist the intruder who thrusts himself upon her. ![]()
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