1. Clockwork Orange
... of clockwork orange that is human. Burgess's little Alex is a clockwork orange until he reaches maturity in the twenty- first chapter. Stanley Hyman, a literary critic, provided an afterward for the original American edition of A Clockwork Orange. In it he states that "Alex always was a clockwork orange, a machine for mechanical violence far below the level of choice...". One must remember that this after ... point of the novel. Without the last chapter the novels theme changes almost interlay. The last chapter shows that the coerced goodness brought on by the government did not fully w...
- Word Count: 7286
- Approx Pages: 29
- Grade Level: High School