Consciousness in the novels of J M Coetzee using Edward Said’s Orientalism.

Exaltation of self-realization happens through consciousness and this paper projects the consciousness of the characters, in the inevitable struggles of their lives. Struggle, being indispensible, is in an entirely different fashion throughout J.M.Coetzee’s novels. Consciousness, of how individual’s temperament shifts easily according to the varied circumstances and the segregation that happens due to the imperialistic thought (Idea that imprints even after the impact is lost) is one predicament. Imperialistic idea comes under orientalism, which is not about the domination or influence of the occident (according to the colonizers’ mindscape), but it gives a distinctive idea of how the mind is fixed with the occidental thought unconsciously. In orientalism by said, Disgrace subjected to outrageous cruelty towards the other, is emphasized. Knowingly or unknowingly, the characters in the novel are preoccupied with the idea of colonization (Imperialism). This impact is visible in the lives of the characters presented in the novel. In addition, silent victimization of the ‘self’ by the cruelty of the ‘other’ is in his novel (occident being the self and the orient, the other).