In Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's best known work, A Clockwork Orange, the perception of the protagonist was drastically altered. ... Gehrke points out in his text Deviant Subjects in Foucault and A Clockwork Orange, the missing of the original ending in the film has accidental reasons: "When Burgess originally wrote the book it was twenty-one chapters long and ended with Alex escaping the effects of behavior modification, outgrowing his lust for violence, and yearning for peace, a wife, and a baby. ... A Clockwork Orange p. 236-238). ... A Clockwork Oran...

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The setting in A Clockwork Orange is a general parallax to a totalitarian and oppressive government. ... In the novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess suggests that the importance of moral freedom be stressed even for criminals condemned by society. ... He doesn't know that it is the house of the author of A Clockwork Orange, but he recognizes Alex and takes care of him. ... The novel's main theme deals with moral freedom, Anthony Burgess expresses his views that no matter how "good" one's actions are, unless one has moral freedom, they are spiritually restricted and opp...

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Anthony Burgess wrote "A clockwork Orange". The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections produces the world of A Clockwork Orange. ... "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 colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State" Before Alex's character is "rehabilitated" he is one of the most amoral people in the book. ... Burgess implies that one can not be purely good or evil to be a man. ... If not, the creation woul...

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A Clockwork Orange: Settings of a Human Machine When he wrote A Clockwork Orange, John Anthony Burgess Wilson created his own world set in London during a future time when gangs and violence are rampant on the streets. ... This particular brand of literature stressed the overly pessimistic view of human nature and featured, as was presented in A Clockwork Orange, violence as well as the dark areas of human behavior and society. ... Anthony Burgess suggests that a controlling government will cause a dark, turbulent, gloomy future using mood, using music, and using violence. A passionate lover...

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"He looked a malenky bit poogly when he viddied the four of us like that" (Burgess 7). ... Most readers have to pause, and dissect almost all the sentences in the beginning of, "A Clockwork Orange," because the author, Anthony Burgess, decided to give the teenagers, or nadsat, their own unique language. ... Similar to the fact that different cultures and tribes can be identified by the unique language that they use, Anthony Burgess made the nadsat language, unique to the youth of his novel. ... Similarly, Anthony Burgess's invented nadsat language uses words that are just as for...

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The film "A Clockwork Orange" directed by Stanley Kubrick was a Sci-Fi film about a vicious fifteen year old boy. The film was an adaptation of the 1963 novel by Anthony Burgess. ... I fell in love with the film "A Clockwork Orange". ...

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