Anthony Burgess Essays

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A Clockwork Orange

Commonly used to help, medication has been associated in a positive light. Vaccines help protect against diseases, asthma inhalers help relieve asthma attacks, and anti-nausea medications help alleviate queasiness. In A Clockwork Orange, Alex is...

A Clockwork Orange

The new American edition of the novel A Clockwork Orange features a final chapter that was omitted from the original American edition against the author's preference. Anthony Burgess, the novel's author, provided for the new edition an...

A Clockwork Orange

In many ways, the controversial last chapter of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange undermines the novel's fundamental premise. Alex's unforeseen transformation from a sadistic criminal into a consciously reformed and mature individual is not...

A Clockwork Orange

Black and white, morning and night: the world fills itself with conflicting forces that must coexist in order for it to run smoothly. Forces like diversity and the fear of terrorism or competition and the desire to peacefully live with one...

12th Grade

A Clockwork Orange

The literary canon is comprised of texts said to be of considerable value, texts regarded as experimentally profound and which may even be said to change the way the reader perceives the world. A Clockwork Orange can be deemed an experimental...

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange in 1962, when the fear of war loomed over everyone’s heads. The youth of that generation were born to be rebels. They felt they needed to counteract the obedient society of the 1950s and sow their own path....

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A Clockwork Orange

Alex is the central character in A Clockwork Orange. He is the narrator and the master/victim of the societal violence. Through Alex, Burgess expresses his theme which is that you cannot force a person to behave through external measures. The...

12th Grade

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange is a 1960’s novel of the modern era that deals with horrific depictions of violence and rape conducted by the novel’s protagonist, Alex. With Burgess’s elaboration on the themes of humanity and freewill in the...