Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

In J. M. Coetzee 's novel "Waiting for the Barbarian", the magistrate saw the savage mankind through dialogue with a blind girl and made him understand the essence of his human race. The magistrate was more tolerant to barbarians than Colonel Jorge, but he still objected them unconsciously and put them on them. Only when he was imprisoned he understood the vulnerability of his human race. After all, the couch uses the magistrate's journey from an experienced leader to a broken and feared prisoner.

Exceptional state of Coetzee and collective shame: While awaiting allegorical reading by barbarians of barbarians, the writers appealed an allegorical style as malice and cultural reaction to colonialism and torture It is. Some people think that this novel expresses a specific criticism of South Africa's political structure, but Cush 's intention is wider and criticism of colonialism as well as American story since 911.

In this semester I have studied several works incorporating the theme of identity. In particular, J. M. Coetzee's "waiting for barbarian" uses an objective language, especially in objectivity. Regardless of whether it makes the torture more painful or just creating a class for social "planning" (ie conquest), the story characters use the object language. Objectiveness of conviction itself. Objectiveization involves establishing your identity with "others." When analyzing the concept of opponent's identity, the degree of separation is the same? After all, waiting for barbarians is just a book. Can you escape from the necessity of objectivity?