came to know as the hero and the people in the world are struggling, but did not find any solution, only the absurdity of the protagonist's state of mind and the town people's numb despair such a fable type novel won't implicit in the era of change, but can be placed in any era, we should reread.In addition, the right of the animal should be paid attention in the modern society, so that the animal should be treated equally as the man.
Waiting for the barbarians, Coetzee tells a fictional civilization empire, and barbaric story behind face of society. Although the novel is set in an unknown place and time, but it is a recognizable "version the generalization of South Africa, Coetzee. Don't limit his theme of the oppressed the barbarian trauma experience civilization brought by violence, but also brought white judge trauma and witness his self-recognition and moral awakening (McCausland, 2014). The magistrate for the vicarious trauma in the process of the testimony of his empathy savage prisoner body and endures abuse his guilt and shame after identifying the brutal nature of the civilization of. He is destined to be an offender does not want to be a criminal, he began to seek methods confess the SINS of the white community. He volunteered to return to torture Chambers find out the truth of the barbarians, and witnesses the experience of pain in his dreams. In addition, he performed his redemption ritual bath barbarian girl's body. However, his sense of guilt and failure in understanding complain that scarred body led to his castration anxiety, this is to further develop, when he was happy and mandrel imprisoned and tortured.
Transformation is from a powerful administrator suffer prisoner displacement led to his identity. Confused the double consciousness of criminals and victims, he couldn't get himself in this plight and inner desire of life than history empire imposed on him. In the pursuit of a clear identity and through the process of trauma, he hired an active construction and citizenship; retell the story of his wounds, writing in the past year's turbulent history. However, no matter what he does, he, for his own sin shall not be exempted from approved by the empire and the barbarians. Moral awakening of the trauma associated with him no matter how painful journey. Through exploring the old judge inner struggle in front of the cruel reality,
Coetzee address the magistrate’s limits his ego. At the same time, he proposed to judge the trauma is not only his personal, but the collective trauma of humanism and conscience of white South Africa. Original settlers left an inhibit scar is not only in the colonies, but also be ashamed of the colonists' crimes and their ancestors have to bear the responsibility ethic debt ex - run up black colonizers. Coetzee and other issues also plagued by whites should bear the responsibility, what and what position in the history of white South Africa, and how to get rid of the white colonial humiliation, and work through their trauma. His answer was, in reality the oppression and white SouthAfricans cannot escape from the history of the criminal history and must bear. In addition, the approach of compensation and settlement woundis healing of black and white. In spite of this, the magistrate's tragic experience shows that white can't completely get rid of their colonial system ultimately reconciliation and black even though they have realized their moral responsibility and compensate the his
