Monster Essays - A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement.
A �clockwork orange� can be described as something that has a convincing outer appearance yet in the inside is merely controlled by outer influences, such as a clock set in motion by its owner. In A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess takes us into the future where violent criminals are forced to be �good,� and introduces us to Alex, a young teen who engages in a life of rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven with his �droogs,� or friends, and t....
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