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What figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society

 

blake m #219921
Dec 12, 2011 8:20 PM

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What figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society

in the book clockwork orange

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Aslan
Dec 12, 2011 8:32 PM

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Burgess depicts a totalitarian state that incorporates elements of both Soviet-style communism and American consumer capitalism. The possibility of such a world order seemed entirely feasible in the early 1960s, when the United States and the U.S.S.R. were establishing themselves as the world’s dominant superpowers and Burgess was writing A Clockwork Orange. There is no single "figurehead" like "Big Brother" in Orwell's 1984.

Source(s): http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/clockworkorange/section1.rhtml

 

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