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Abstract Abstract: Alienation is not only concerned with one’s self, it is also related to one’s circumstances, which means that one’s self is estranged or separated from his environment. Alienation makes one feel that he is incapable, spiritually confused, and his life is meaningless. The alienated images shaped in South African writer Coetzee’s fiction Disgrace embody the alienation of one’s value, the alienation of one’s habitual behaviors and the alienation of one’s roles. The university professor Lurie’s value is alienated from that of the whole society. He tends to view a problem only from his own point of view and he rarely cares about the value orientation of others and that of the whole society, while others assume it as a matter of course that everyone is justified to reject or resist the thing that is contradictory to the accustomed behaviors. Thus, as a result, Lurie is further alienated by his surrounding environment. As a father, Lurie gets confused about the social role he should hold, and his individual value is always in conflict with his social role. After the alienated Lurie himself has experienced the pain that he has inflicted on others, he begins his introspection and self-awakening, and in the end with an expiatory mental state he accepts his sufferings. Only by that time is his alienated spirit finally liberated from imprisonment.
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