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Clockwork Orange First Chapter
1,310 wordsA Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, is a dark look into a frightful future of violence and social control. The story dives deep into such issues as free will, the illusions of reality, the morality of ethics, and many others. Burgess fills this horrific tale with satire, numerous puns, and above all: irony. A Clockwork Orange is comparable to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Burgess presents us with a philosophical message that we may soon find ourselv...
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Clockwork Orange Roman Catholic
1,343 words... e (Burgess, Clockwork 15). In the movie version of A Clockwork Orange, this scene shows the rape being committed on an actual stage. An example of a rather bizarre simile can also be found in chapter one with Alex's, .".. there I was dancing about with my briton like I might be a barber on board a ship on a very rough sea, trying to get in at him with a few fair slashes on his unclean oily list" The mechanics of A Clockwork Orange exist to emphasize its tone, which is one of informality, out...
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Freedom Of Choice Anthony Burgess
820 wordsAnthony Burgess's View That a Lack of Free Choice is Spiritually Condemning as Evident In all of my reading, I have come to the conclusion that Anthony Burgess is the greatest literary genius of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange, is unrivaled in depth, insight, and innovation. The novel is a work of such quality, such perfection, that it seems to be written by a literary demigod. The novel's main theme deals with free choice and spiritual freedom. More specifically, "[Th...
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Freedom Of Thought Begins To Feel
1,662 wordster> TASK To what extent does Alex have his own freedom of thought A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess follows the life of a young juvenile delinquent by the name of Alex. Throughout the novel we learn in depth about the young protagonist, Alex, including his love for music and his apparent passion toward violence. Burgess uses bizarre, yet apt language choice in this novel which helps you relate to the main character in an easier manner, hence improving the appeal and success of thi...
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Good Or Evil Order To Create
1,732 wordsThe freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State" (Burgess ix). Burgess expresses t...
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Church Of England Anthony Burgess
1,755 wordsAnthony Burgess, Selective Individualist It is often said that life is full of choices and the choices you make is what makes you yourself. Society, however, has since the dawn of time tried to control the thoughts of individuals by forcing ideas upon them that destroys the person on a mental and emotional level while crushing their physical well-being. With the thoughts of a perfect world, people often forget that when you force a society to conform to standards you also kill the society's exis...
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Freedom Of Choice Stanley Kubrick
1,846 wordsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962, technically falls after the period deemed as Modernism, yet it embodies all of the features that were characteristic of that literary era. Burgess s novel is a futuristic look at a Totalitarian government. The main character (or anti-hero) is Alex, who is an ultra-violent thief who has no qualms about using force to get the in-out-in-out. The beginning of the story takes us through a night in the life of Alex and his Drugs, and details th...
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Clockwork Orange Morally Acceptable
1,861 wordsGoodness Calculated Captivity Calculated Captivation Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. In Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange, a sadistic adolescent of the not-so-distant future is rehabilitated of his violent nature by a special conditioning treatment. This fifteen year-old hoodlum Alex McDowell is cured of his savage activities but when released back into a still violent society, he is a misfit. Anthony Burge...
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