hybridity. It also celebrates hybridity that is the condition somehow; groups of peoples belong to more than one culture 2002:199.
C. Method of the Study
In analysing the novel, the library research was conducted. It means that the data were collected from the books, theories of literature, and other
information sources that could support the study. There are two kinds of sources that are used in this study. The first is the novel itself as the main source of this
study. The second sources are theories on the literary works and some postcolonial theories to examine the topic. Theories that are used in this study for
examples, theories of character and characterization by M. H. Abrams, M. J. Murphy, R. Stanton, Henkle, and theories of Postcolonialism by Leela Gandhi,
Frantz Fanon, Elleke Boehmer. The writer took certain steps in exploring the novel. The first step was to
scrutinize the novel until the writer got a full comprehension, by focusing on the main character. The place or the nature, including detailed objects where the story
takes place, the interrelation between each character in the story, and the social condition of the story lead to the comprehension of the main character as the
representation of the western hegemony. The second step was to find theories of character and characterization, theory of postcolonialism, theory of representation,
and theory of western hegemony. The theories were used in order to analyse deeper how the main character in the novel is depicted. The third step was to take
notes of any relevant and supportive information on postcolonialism,
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representation, and western hegemony. The fourth step was to apply the theories and information to analyse the topic presented. Finally, the last step was to make
the conclusion, which was drawn with the consideration of the analysis done before.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter covers three subchapters, which are the answers of the problems formulated in the previous chapter. The first subchapter is the general
qualities of the main character, namely Professor David Lurie. The second is how David Lurie’s qualities represent the qualities of the coloniser. The third is how
the western hegemony depicted through David Lurie.
A. The General Qualities of David Lurie
In this part, the writer will investigate the general qualities of the main character, David Lurie as human being. How the general qualities of David Lurie
are presented in Coetzee’s Disgrace will be analysed through applying the theory of character and characterization. Moreover, this part is useful to find out the
dominant qualities of David Lurie that will be the basic concern in the next subchapter.
1. Intellectual
Here, David Lurie is introduced as an intellectual person who works in Cape Technical University. He teaches Communications and Romantic Poets. In
his career, he has produced three works of art, namely Baito and the Faust Legend: The Genesis of Mefistofele, The Vision of Richard of St Victor, and
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Wordsworth and the Burden of the Past. He keeps creating works of art and spends his time to do the research. It can be seen in the following quotation.
He spends more time in the university library, reading all he can find on the wider Byron circle, adding to notes that already fill two fat files. He
enjoys the late-afternoon quiet of the reading room, enjoys the walk home afterwards: the brisk winter air, the damp, gleaming streets Coetzee,
1999: 11.
From the quotation above, it is clearly seen that David Lurie can be called the real
intellectual person not only intelligent person because there are lots of people have very good brain but do nothing, but David Lurie is willing to spend his time
to do research in the subjects for long periods of study. The situation and condition in his surroundings cannot prevent his research on Byron, indicating
that David Lurie can work in every situation even when he is under pressure. His head is full of his project on Byron, about how he can make progress
on it. This kind of situation can be seen when the day meets its end, he cannot sleep well and starts to think about his project.
He gets up, drapes a jacket over his shoulders, returns to bed. he is reading Byron’s letters of 1820…he sighs again. how brief the summer, before the
autumn and then the winter He reads on past midnight, yet even so cannot get to sleep Coetzee, 1999: 87.
The heaviest burden on his mind is his project on Byron. Although he does other activities, he is upset when he does not make much progress on this project. It is
seen when he is in his daughter’s house. He works in the garden; when he is tired he sits by the dam, observing the
ups and downs of the duck family, brooding on the Byron project. The project is not moving. All he can grasp of it are fragments Coetzee, 1999:
141.
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