1.
How can we relate the relationship between the
speakers culture and the barbarians to apartheid in South Africa? Where are the
parallels obvious? Where do the narratives diverge?
2.
What can be said of the two relationships that
the narrator is juggling in the first half of the novel?
3.
How do the depictions of animals in the novel
(especially the horses) illuminate the activism that Coetzee engages in?
4.
What does the scene on page 144 say about
prisoners? How does Coetzee equate this with the barbarians and the segregation
throughout the novel?
5.
Does the downfall of the narrator and the
humiliation he feels ethically “make up” for the damage he did as a magistrate?
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