الفهرس 
Archetypal Representation of RapeOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The thesis tried to show how the victim of rape suffers throughout different ages and cultures. Although the others’ view of rape and the raped woman might have slightly changed throughout ages, it has remained harsh and oppressive throughout. It is also a clear representation of the oppression entailed in both patriarchal ideology and colonial ideology. Both have served to victimise women generally and raped women particularly. In the two novels Disgrace and S., women have been used and abused by the male power and the colonial authority. Men have used women’s bodies for their own pleasure, regardless of these women’s feelings; an action that takes place during peace and war. Women’s equation with land has transformed them into objects rather than human beings. They have become the targets of the coloniser who takes advantage of them in an attempt to possess their land(s). Maiming women’s bodies has been used in order to humiliate them and their men; thus, the burden is doubled. Women live to remember the dire events of rape personified in their maimed bodies and/or rape children and in the eyes of their husbands, brothers, sons and fathers and/or even the whole society. Burdened with all this pain, raped women usually reside in silence in an attempt to hide what befell them. Moreover, they either cannot speak or the listener is unwilling to listen, see, and understand the horror that they have gone through. Some victims choose not to talk about the experience, others are denied this right, and others simply cannot speak about the experience. In all cases, silence adds to the misery and pain of these women. Within this perspective, this study aims at showing the fictional texts of Coetzee and Drakulić as two novels that represent the experience of rape where both the patriarchal and the colonial ideologies collaborate in silencing and oppressing the women characters