This being my first read work by Anthony Burgess, it has inspired me to read more of his literature. I originally picked out this book after a recommendation from a fellow schoolmate. It has the conflicts Man verses Society, Man versus Man, and Man verses Himself, which make a great combination for this very intelligent plot. I believe the book is much more violent, graphic, vulgar, and even quite more disturbing than the movie, which is directed by Stanley Kubrick, one of my all-time favorite directors. Also, the book adds the advantage of the 21st chapter, which gives a new point of view to the entire story, while the movie leaves out this very important part.

“Anthony Burgess was born John Anthon

A Clockwork Orange had a very small list of characters. There was Alex: the gang’s leader and star of the story, Georgie: the gang member (droog) that attempts to overthrow Alex, Dim: the very unintelligent droog (“Dim being really dim” (Burgess 1)), Pete: the passive droog, the four victims, the prison Charlie: the priest in the prison who puts down the treatment that Alex undergoes, Dr. Brodsky, the doctor that gives the treatment to Alex, and Alex’s father and mother.

“In 1959 Burgess was sent back to England and released from the Colonial Office after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Troubled by the thought of leaving his wife without income, he wrote five novels in the next year and a total of eleven by 1964. These include The Doctor Is Sick, The Wanting Seed, A Clockwork Orange, Honey for the Bears, and Nothing Like the Sun. He also produced two works, One Hand Clapping and Inside Mr. Enderby, under the pseudonym Joseph Kell “ (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.bio.html).

“In 1968 Llewela died after years of poor health. Later that year Burgess discovered he had a four-year-old son by Liana Macellari, who he soon married. The three moved to Malta to avoid high British income taxes and later to Italy and then Monaco. From 1969 to 1973 Burgess held a series of visiting instructor positions at the University of North Carolina, Columbia, Princeton, and City College in New York” (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.bio.html).

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