Disgrace - Ch. 1 - 6

We see the developing theme of exploitation in J.M. Coetzee's, "Disgrace".  From the beginning we have the escorts Soraya, who has two sons and Dawn, who is no more than eighteen years of age being exploited by getting sucked into the business where they get paid to have sex with different men.  We see more examples of exploitation where David meets Melanie, who is a student of his at the University where he teaches.  He develops a relationship with her that is formed out of lust and desire.  He ends up having sex with her but it doesn't end up in mutual happiness.  Melanie feels used because she will not make eye contact with David and will refuse on some occasions to meet up with him.  Melanie then switches roles with David in that she begins to exploit him by taking advantage of him.  She stops attending his classes and doesn't even take his midterm but it doesn't matter because he gives her a grade and marks her present every day that she isn't there because of the relationship that they are in.  She then exploits him even further when she wants to stop seeing him by dropping out of the course and filing a harassment report on David which brings about a trial he must attend to in order to plead his case.