A Clockwork Orange Essay Research Paper Science

A Clockwork Orange Essay, Research Paper

Science Fiction

A Modern Clockwork

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962, technically falls under the period deemed as? Modernism? , yet it includes all of the characteristics that were characteristic of that literary epoch. Burgess? s novel is a futuristic expression at a Totalitarian authorities. The chief character, Alex, or the anti-hero, is an? ultra-violent? stealer who has no scruple about utilizing force to acquire the? in-out-in-out? . The beginning of the narrative takes us through a dark in the life of Alex and his Droogs, and the inside informations of the escapades that occupy their clip. At 15 old ages old Alex is set up by his Droogs ( Pete, Dim, and Georgie ) and was sent to prison and convicted of slaying. At the State Penitentiary he became 6655321 and spent two old ages out of a 14 twelvemonth sentence at that place. Alex is chosen by the authorities to undergo an experimental therapy called the? Ludvico? s Technique? , and to be administered by Dr. Brodsky. This technique was to bring around him of making bad things. Alex is given injections and made to watch movies of colza and force, and the combination of the images and the drugs cause him to tie in feelings of terror and sickness with force. He is released after a two hebdomads of intervention. Shortly after being released and holding a few brushs with past victims he finds himself in the place of a extremist author. This

writer, F. Alexander, also a victim of Alex?s, but did not recognize him, was strongly opposed to the new treatment that the government had subjected him to, and believed that this method robs the recipient of freedom of choice and moral decision. Therefore depriving him of being human at all, and becoming a clockwork orange. Alex eventually attempts suicide and the State is forced to admit the therapy was a mistake and ?cures? him again. The last chapter in the novel, which was omitted from the American version and Stanley Kubrick?s film, shows Alex?s realization that he is growing up and out of his ultra-violent ways on his own. He realizes that he would like to have a wife and a son of his own. A Clockwork Orange abandons normal language, which Modernist believe couldn?t always convey meaning anyway, and is written in ?Nadsat?. Nadsat is the teenager slang that was spoken at the time. Burgess uses approximately two hundred and fifty nadsat words to convey his story. This gives the reader a sense of intimacy with Alex and his Droogs, due to the fact that the adults in the novel can?t understand what they are saying. There is also a disturbance in the linear flow of narrative aside from this private language. Alex, ?Our Humble Narrator?, tells his stories in a remembering type sequence, but often interjects questions and thoughts directly at the reader. Besides the strange language that is found on the pages of this novel