Synopsis: Set in the “not so distant future”, A Clockwork Orange follows the story of a juvenile delinquent Alex and his gang of three friends or “droogs”. Alex and his droogs commit heinous crimes after dark. One night, after breaking into an old lady’s house, the police are called and Alex is caught while his droogs escape. In prison, Alex hears of a new experimental program, aversion therapy, known as the Ludovico Technique that the state is going to use on criminals. Going through with this program, although dangerous, will reduce Alex’s prison sentence and soon he will be back on the street.
Genre: This book has been classified as many different genres, namely; Science fiction, Satire and dystopian crime film.
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The book was written in 21 chapters all equally divided into three parts. The number 21 symbolised Alex’s growth
(www.shmoop.com; A Clockwork Orange Introduction) it serves as a form of closure for readers. When the book was released in America, the publisher took out the 21st chapter and the book was released as 20 chapters. The reason for this was thought to be because the
American publisher felt that the book would have ended on an “ambiguous note”, had it finished with Burgess’s intended 21 chapters (IMDb; Frequently Asked Questions answered) . Kubrick’s film was adapted from the book published in the United States.
Burgess was not pleased with this “interference”, however, he accepted the change (IMDb;
Frequently Asked Questions answered). Burgess said that he had been receiving requests for permission to adapt his book into a stage play “for 28 years”. “[Other’s versions] were usually so abysmally bad that I was forced eventually to pre-empt other perversions with and authoritative rendering of my own” (Burgess, A; http://www.anthonyburgess.org/ ; 01). With these thoughts in mind, in 1986 Burgess published A Clockwork Orange: A Play with
Pervagatus Oppressio “Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!” -Dennis Literature exists to express, and thus is tied to the oldest and finest art in human expression, complaining. Complaints can take many levels, from the trivial to the hefty and legitimate. Literature then is often used to illustrate some issue, be it political, social, antisocial, intrinsic, extrinsic, people not being friendly enough, people being overbearing, people being people, men being men, imagined, concrete, abstract, modern, postmodern, post-postmodern, meta-post-postmodern, timeless, classical, the faults of the young, the faults of the old, the faults of the very old and now dead, endemic, exdemic, tenacious,
The aspects of the book that have been changed are differences but those differences are not bad. They accentuate the creativity of the movies filmer and his/her opinion on the book. The book is different from the movie but it is also similar. I have combined the movie and book together when I think about The Secret Life of Bees. I have learned what T.Ray was doing while Lily was away, from the movie, and I have also learned how delicate a person can be from May.
One film example that will have a sub-genre is a fantasy film. This type of film usually overlaps or crossover with other genres, like science fiction, and sometimes historical dramas (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). While going forth with my paper on “The Wizard of Oz”, I will help the viewers understand
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The book did an overall good job matching the books descriptions, the actors matched well and the background matched Orwell 's description well. Especially when depicting the outer party, the people were dull and robot-like, just how I pictured when reading the book. Also, there was the little mottos of the party such as, “Hope lies in the Proles” which really were some of the most memorable parts of the book. However, they did change a few
The question what genre is will be answered and how the three novels The Scarlet Letter, The Handmaid’s Tale, and When She Woke are situated within the genre canon. All three novels can be categorized as belonging to the genre of dystopian literature. Of course this is not the
Most of the reviews praised the inventiveness of the language, while at the same time stressing unease at the violent subject matter (IABF, n.d.). The American and British editions were essentially different with the omission of the 21st chapter in the American edition and thus Alex 's moral transformation. Paradoxically, given the less moral ending, the book did get more favourable reviews in America. Anthony Burgess has said 'Though they were reading a somewhat different book, American reviewers understood what I was trying to do rather better than their British counterparts '( Burgess, 1990) An anonymous reviewer for the New York Times calls the book "brilliant," and writes, "A Clockwork Orange is a tour-de-force in nastiness, an inventive primer in total violence, a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds” (NY Times, 1963).
Because of this transition, there were drastic changes made to the movie, but also there were similarities that had to be kept in order to maintain the original ideas of the book. Characters are the center of any movie or work of literature. How they are developed and portrayed makes an impact on the
The movie version wasn’t all that long. They took a bunch of lines out of the play so they play would be shorter and not as long and it wouldn’t make people not want to watch the anymore. They tried to put the most important lines that were written on their script into the movie. So as time went on I think people got tired of the same old movie version of Much Ado About Nothing.
For example, the scene where Virginia buys a train ticket in hopes to escape Richmond Daldry changes the scene and portrays it quite differently than how Cunningham wrote it. In the novel when Virginia buys her train ticket and plans to flee to London, she leaves the station to take a walk around the town when she runs into Mr. Woolf. Whereas in the movie Mr.Woolf finds her at the train station. In the novel, Mr.Woolf does not know Virginia had plans to flee. However in the movie, this is the emotional climax of the film, Mr. Woolf catches her in the act.
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A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess, deals with the essence of humanity and morality. Being difficult topics to grapple with, many turn to a religious perspective to inform their beliefs on these subjects. Burgess himself is a strongly Catholic individual and this ideology shows through in the ideas presented by A Clockwork Orange. The book contains a number of allusions to the Bible, Jesus and God’s intentions for humanity. These religious references build upon each other to develop Burgess’ notion that God created humans with free will, and how this leaves humankind flawed and prone to evil tendences.
While this movie may not be for everybody it does contain an interesting and controversial commentary on society. It seems that the primary message argued in A Clockwork Orange is that through abuse Alex has been considered cured, people must not be used as scientific experiments even if the experiment is for the greater good of society. The needs of the many do not outweigh the rights of one and by breaking this moral code by the elected officials drastically changes the way the society favors their government and its practices. Social engineering is not the answer to eliminate a disruptive youth culture and maintaining order within society. Violent impulses, sexual urges, the enjoyment of music, participating in social camaraderie are all essential parts of the human experience and eliminating any part of that experience would eliminate what it means to be a
The 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, consists of many psychological concepts. Two concepts in particular seem to have the biggest impact and role throughout this film. These concepts being, classical conditioning and the idea that our environment and our experiences of nurture are what shapes us. A Clockwork Orange is the story of a group of young men who take pleasure in committing crimes and causing others to feel pain, they call themselves the “Droogs”. Alex, the group leader, suffers from Antisocial Personality Disorder, a disorder also known as “psychopath”.