The Victims In J·M·Coetzee's Novels

J·M·Coetzee was the winner of 2003 Nobel Literature Prize. The Nobel Literature Prize appraisal committee to his work's appraisal is, 'The structures of his works are complete, in the novels the characters talk splendidly and Coetzee's thoughts are profound.'Coetzee has portrayed a group of image as the Victims in his novels. He has witnessed the suffering and oppression of his people under the apartheid and post-apartheid regimes. He is a writer and he is a skeptic who views himself as having an ethical obligation to respond to the rampant injustice that characterizes his society. He works painstakingly to find out a way to represent the difficult position, to help them combat all forms of oppression. The aim of this thesis is to interpret Coetzee's way of representing the difficult position by analyzing the novels which best illustrate his way of representation i.e., how he creates the Victims in his works and how do they face their dilemmas.The main body of the thesis consists of three chapters:Chapter One analyses what difficult conditions the Victims fall into and the reasons. The difficult conditions include physical difficulties and troubles in spirit. The reasons may be the chaos caused by war, unfair systems, the price of insisting the truth, the losing of discourse right, the barriers caused by personal differences, the overflows of desire and so on.Chapter Two views the troubles of the Victims from a social or a historical perspective. The problems will be: the debts caused by colonial rule, the modern systems which make people under great pressure, words hegemony and the aggravating human nature dissimilation.Chapter Three focuses on the Victims' way of fighting against all forms of difficult problems and Coetzee's viewpoints of social and historical problems. By creating the images of 'victim', Coetzee thought deeply about the topics of democracy and freedom, cultural collision and cultural fusion, humanitarianism and morals.Chapter Four introduces the author's life experiences. Analyses what caused him to pay attention to the Victims. And in this chapter, I try to discuss the immigrant writers' life and writing conditions.