Noble Savage in J.M.Coetzee`s Disgrace

Abstract

Analytically accounting, the noble savage as a literary term designates the sense of the lingering principles that survive,although fierce and feline, the sordid circumstances stop short of eradicating those principles that move momentum and persist being vanished; it is first coined by Montaigne`s essay Of Cannibals in 1580,but it surges into prominence in the seventeenth century and then it is applied in Dryden's The Conquest of Granada.