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A Clockwork Orange  
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Dust jacket from the first edition
Author Anthony Burgess
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel, Satire
Publisher William Heinemann (UK)
Publication date 1962
Media type Print (hardback & paperback) & audio book (cassette, CD)
Pages 192 pages (hardback edition) &
176 pages (paperback edition)
ISBN 0434098000
OCLC Number 4205836
.A Clockwork Orange (1962) is a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess.^ Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess .
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 ^ Anthony Burgess is extremely clear in his message in A Clockwork Orange.

 ^ Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange" in 1962.
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.The title is taken from an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange"¹, and alludes to the prevention of the main character's exercise of his free will through the use of a classical conditioning technique.^ The on-site shooting in A Clockwork Orange is used as a technique to accentuate the absurdity of the main characters.

 ^ The title "Clockwork Orange" by chrth .
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 ^ Title music from A clockwork orange .
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 .With this technique, the subject’s emotional responses to violence are systematically paired with a negative stimulation in the form of nausea caused by an emetic medicine administered just before the presentation of films depicting "ultra-violent" situations.^ The film was shocking because it portrayed acts of violence that had not been seen of film before.
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 ^ Alex is given injections and made to watch films of rape and violence and the mixture of these images and the drug cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence.

 ^ What gets the "Clockwork" story ticking is when Alex is offered up as a guinea pig for a new form of aversion therapy that makes him violently ill anytime he feels like revisiting his old hobby of ultra-violence.
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 .Written from the perspective of a seemingly biased and unapologetic protagonist, the novel also contains an experiment in language: Burgess creates a new speech that is the teenage slang of the not-too-distant future.^ I loved the language of this book - the argot that the teenagers in this novel use reflects their violent and cold-blooded dispositions.
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 ^ Written in a modified, teenage slang (which is actually a mix of English and Russian words I've heard), the book narrates the adolescence of an ill-behaved teenager named Alex.
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 ^ In addition, Burgess bases the most horrific scene in the novel -- the rape of the writer's wife -- on personal experience.
.The novel has been adapted for cinema in a controversial movie by Stanley Kubrick, and also by Andy Warhol; adaptations have also been made for television, radio, and the stage.^ The movie version of this book is pretty sucky too, basically because Stanley Kubrick is a pretentious bastard too.
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 ^ Stanley Kubrick, when directing the movie, also left the last part out of the film.
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 ^ The play is a loose adaptation of the Anthony Burgess book and the Stanley Kubrick film and has managed to steer clear of being too much like either.
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 As well as inspiring a concept album, the novel and films are referred to in, and have inspired, a number of songs and bands.

Contents

Plot summary

Part 1: Alex's world

.Alex, living in near-future England, leads his gang on nightly orgies of opportunistic, random violence.^ Alex is a child of the near future, who is merciless and enjoys crime and torture stating that, “it was an evening of some small energy expenditures” to summarize his brutal actions.

 ^ The talented and able cast is headed by W. Travis Campbell with an impressively convincing depiction of Alex, the leader of a gang whose main pleasure in life is provided by their nightly acts of gratuitous cruelty to the helpless and the violence to and sexual mistreatment of their victims.
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 ^ The narrator, Alex, a precocious 15-year-old psychopath who has no feeling for others, leads a small gang in many acts of gratuitous, and much enjoyed, violence.
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 .Alex's friends ("droogs" in the novel's Anglo-Russified slang) are Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle, Georgie, and Pete.^ [Alex encounters his old friends Dim and Georgie, who are now policemen] Alex : It's impossible!
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 ^ Early in the story, Alex and his gang break into his house and attack and rape his wife, who dies.
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 ^ This gives the reader a sense of intimacy with Alex and his droogs (friends) due to the fact that the adults in the novel cant understand what they are govoreeting (saying).

 .Alex, who is quick-witted and possessing an often disconcerting sense of humour, is clearly the smartest of the group and seemingly very cultured.^ He’s cultured, is Alex, and while his culturedness obviously does not equal civilisation and goodness (a point he himself is quick to make), it does put him a notch above the average hooligan.
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 ^ Following this scene, we see Alex and his friends in a bar, again through the eyes of baffled observers, who seem slightly peeved by the group.

 ^ Kael thought the movie was saying very simply that Alex's world was populated by corrupt subhuman freaks who deserved what they got, but was it?
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.The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favourite milkbar, drinking drugged milk to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.^ The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking.
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 ^ The beginning of the story takes us through a night in the life of Alex and his Droogs, and details the adventures that occupy their time.

 ^ He drinks milk with "knives in it," undoubtedly a form of speed, which sharpens him up for a night on the town (Burgess, Orange 3).

 .They assault a scholar walking home from the library, stamp on a panhandling derelict, scuffle with a rival gang led by Billyboy, rob a newsagent and leave its owners unconscious, then steal a car.^ They are indiscriminate drug users who assault strangers in the street, break into shops and homes where they attack the rightful owners and beat people into bloody pulps.
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 .Joyriding in the countryside, they break into an isolated cottage and maul the young couple living there, beating the husband and raping his wife.^ Since the first section of the book is the most violent, it is enough to know that they beat a man to the pulp or raped a woman in front of her husband without the picture of what exactly happened in your head.
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 ^ MR. ALEXANDER I tell you, sir, they have turned this young man into something other than a human being.
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 ^ This comedy is a must-see for all those who feel they need a break from their mundane lives.
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 .The droogs ditch the car, and Dim and Georgie make clear their dissatisfaction with Alex's domination of the gang.^ When Alex meets Georgie and Dim after they've joined the police force, their badge numbers are 665 and 667.
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 ^ At fifteen years old Alex is set up by his Droogs (Pete, Dim, and Georgie) and was sent to jail and convicted of murder.

 ^ Evidenced by some of the conflicts between him and his droogs, where the others demanded a “new way” that entails no longer picking on Dim, it is clear that Alex is only a leader as long as the others allow for it.

 .At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music thunderously while bringing himself to climax with fantasies of even more orgiastic violence.^ He liked the good of classical music even if he associated it with the evils of violence.

 ^ Also, Alex appears on occasion to sincerely protest the evil of others and on one occasion even calls his conditioning against classical music a "sin".

 ^ Tunes from Beethoven weave throughout the violence and the oppositions between classical music and knife-fights, lyrical movement and sexual attack have a shocking power.
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.Alex skips school the following morning and is visited by P. R. Deltoid, a "post-corrective advisor" assigned to remediate his juvenile delinquency.^ Burgess' Ted Bundy, a teenage Lucifer named Alex, is a far cry from the typical, spray paint-wielding juvenile delinquent.

 ^ You watch out, little Alex, because next time it's not going to be the Corrective School anymore.
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 ^ DELTOID Well, yes, it's just a manner of speech from your Post Corrective Advisor to you that you watch out, little Alex.
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 .Visiting his favourite music shop, Alex meets a pair of underage girls and takes them back to his parents' flat, where he feeds them alcohol and sexually assaults them while they are intoxicated.^ When Alex meets Georgie and Dim after they've joined the police force, their badge numbers are 665 and 667.
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 ^ ALEX And it just so happened that while they were showing me a particularly bad film, of like a concentration camp, the background music was playing Beethoven.
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 ^ In it, Jonathan (Cusack) meets Sara (Beckinsale) as they are shopping in Bloomingdales and both grab the same thing.
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.Alex later chats with his parents, who are sceptical of his claims about having a night job, yet too intimidated to press the issue.^ Wilhoft's eyes often hint at a sort of animal cunning, especially when Alex, who claims "I'm not dim" at one point, is trying to put something over on someone.
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 ^ The main character (or anti-hero) is Alex, who is an ultra-violent thief who has no qualms about using force to get the in-out-in-out.

 .Arriving late to meet the droogs, who have already pumped themselves up with "the old knifey moloko" (i.e., drugged milk), Alex is at a disadvantage.^ Alex is the only one in his gang who has fully conscience of what he's doing; on the contrary, his 'droogs' arrange horrorshow in a rather childish way, without knowing why.
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 ^ Alex and gang move in and start beating up on old Tramp.
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 ^ Those who have seen the film will know that Alex (the anti-hero) and his droogs (friends) speak a made-up language full of Russian loanwords, Shakespearean and Biblical influences and Cockney rhyming slang.
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 .Georgie challenges Alex for leadership of the gang, demanding that they pull a "man-sized" job by robbing a wealthy old woman who lives alone with her cats.^ Alex is the only one in his gang who has fully conscience of what he's doing; on the contrary, his 'droogs' arrange horrorshow in a rather childish way, without knowing why.
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 ^ Alex and gang move in and start beating up on old Tramp.
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 ^ [Alex encounters his old friends Dim and Georgie, who are now policemen] Alex : It's impossible!
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 .Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then in a show of generosity takes them to a bar for some fortifying drinks.^ [Alex encounters his old friends Dim and Georgie, who are now policemen] Alex : It's impossible!
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 ^ Alex is pulled out by Georgie and Dim and hustled up a deserted lane.
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 ^ At fifteen years old Alex is set up by his Droogs (Pete, Dim, and Georgie) and was sent to jail and convicted of murder.

 .Georgie and Dim are ready to call it a night, but Alex bullies them into proceeding with the burglary.^ When Alex meets Georgie and Dim after they've joined the police force, their badge numbers are 665 and 667.
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 ^ [Alex encounters his old friends Dim and Georgie, who are now policemen] Alex : It's impossible!
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 ^ Alex is pulled out by Georgie and Dim and hustled up a deserted lane.
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 At the woman's house, she's reluctant to open the door and calls the police. .His droogs lift Alex through a second-floor window and, after a farcical struggle, he knocks the old woman unconscious.^ Alex's talks with the priest in prison and his yearning to move away from his old life through education also suggest that he could be reformed.
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 ^ The beginning of the story takes us through a night in the life of Alex and his Droogs, and details the adventures that occupy their time.

 ^ At fifteen years old Alex is set up by his Droogs (Pete, Dim, and Georgie) and was sent to jail and convicted of murder.

 With sirens in the distance Alex flees. .His droogs await him at the front door, and Dim hits Alex with a chain across the eyes, causing him extreme pain and temporary blindness (the chain was replaced with a full milk bottle in the film version).^ Evidenced by some of the conflicts between him and his droogs, where the others demanded a “new way” that entails no longer picking on Dim, it is clear that Alex is only a leader as long as the others allow for it.

 ^ Previously Alex had sinister and devious facial expressions establishing him as evil and guiltless but manipulated Alex is forced to appear terrified with his eyes wide open.

 ^ Those who have seen the film will know that Alex (the anti-hero) and his droogs (friends) speak a made-up language full of Russian loanwords, Shakespearean and Biblical influences and Cockney rhyming slang.
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 .They leave Alex to fend for himself, and the police find and arrest him.^ Alex finds the gang waiting for him.
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 ^ There are two different places in the book in which Alex imagines himself as the one who is whipping Jesus and nailing him to the cross.

 ^ After a full minute of this, they drag him out, halt-drowned, DIM (laughing) Be viddying you some more, some time Alex.
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 At the police station they ask him questions about the invasion. .P.R. Deltoid shows up and renounces Alex, spitting in his face and telling him that he can't intercede on his behalf any longer.^ Alex looks up at him and smiles.
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 ^ Deltoid spits in Alex's face.
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 ^ The look of fear on Alex’s face parallels the intended result of the experimental treatment: to cure him of his lack of empathy.

 .Alex is later summoned from his jail cell and learns that his victim has died and he is now guilty of murder.^ You are now a murderer, little Alex.
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 ^ At fifteen years old Alex is set up by his Droogs (Pete, Dim, and Georgie) and was sent to jail and convicted of murder.

 ^ DELTOID You are now a murderer, little Alex.
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Part 2: The Ludovico Technique

.After enduring prison life for two years, Alex gets a job as an assistant to the prison chaplain.^ Chaplain : Alex befriends the chaplain, and gets a job in the prison church operating the music.
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 ^ The following day, Alex, taking a much needed break from school, lures two ten-year-old girls to his room, gets them drunk and rapes them to a backdrop of Beethoven's Ninth (Burgess, Orange 50-54).

 ^ Alex's talks with the priest in prison and his yearning to move away from his old life through education also suggest that he could be reformed.
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 .He feigns an interest in religion and amuses himself by reading the Bible for its lurid descriptions of "the old yahoodies (Jews) tolchocking (beating) each other" and imagining himself taking part in "the nailing-in" (the Crucifixion of Jesus).^ I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and then drink their Hebrew vino, and getting onto the bed with their wives' handmaidens.
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 ^ I read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns and I could viddy myself helping in and even taking charge of the tolchocking and the nailing in, being dressed in the height of Roman fashion.
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 ^ ALEX (V.O.) I read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns and all that, and I could viddy myself helping in and even taking charge of the tolchocking and the nailing in, being dressed in the height of Roman fashion.
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 .Alex learns of his ex-droog Georgie's death by an intended victim during a botched robbery.^ A tramp was kicked to death by a teenager wearing the outfit of Alex and his droogs.
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 ^ At fifteen years old Alex is set up by his Droogs (Pete, Dim, and Georgie) and was sent to jail and convicted of murder.

 ^ ALEX (V.O.) There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim and we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
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 .He also hears about an experimental rehabilitation programme called "the Ludovico technique", which promises that the prisoner will be released upon completion of the two-week treatment and, as a result, will not commit any crimes afterwards.^ The look of fear on Alex’s face parallels the intended result of the experimental treatment: to cure him of his lack of empathy.

 ^ The plot of "A Clockwork Orange" can be made simple; a juvenile delinquent commits murder, gets sent to prison and undergoes an experimental treatment designed to prevent criminal impulses.
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 ^ He is released after a fortnight ( two weeks) of treatment and after a few encounters with past victims finds himself at the HOME of a radical writer (who ironically had also been a victim of Alexs, but does not recognize him) who is strongly opposed to the new treatment the government has subjected him to.

 .The prison chaplain warns against it, arguing that moral choice is necessary to humanity — a theme introduced earlier during the home invasion scene, when Alex reads a passage from the victimised husband's work in progress.^ In spite all his sucking up to the prison Chaplain and reading the Bible.
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 ^ The novels prison chaplain, and possibly Burgess also, was terribly worried that such conditioning could remove the possibility of moral choice.

 ^ ALEX (V.O.) It had been arranged by the prison charlie, as part of my further education to read him the Bible.
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.After speaking out in line when being reviewed, Alex is selected to become the subject in the first full-scale trial of the Ludovico Technique.^ This is reflective of what the Ludovico Technique proposed to do both to Alex and for society as a whole.

 ^ These problems are evident in the effects of the Ludovico Technique on Alex and his ability to function and on society itself – in the way everyone begins to use Alex as a means to their ends.

 ^ Alex loses his identity first in prison when he becomes 6655321, and then the therapy ultimately takes away his ability to choose to do wrong.

 .The technique itself is a form of aversion therapy, in which Alex is given a drug that induces extreme nausea while being forced to watch graphically violent films for two weeks.^ After watching this film, it is clear that heroin addiction is not being glorified and that "choosing life" is definately the better alternative.
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 ^ Ultimately in the film neither the government nor the indiviual knows what is better - being a "good" citizen (a product of the fascist government) or a "bad" (a product of the violent and arguably anarchic response) one.
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 ^ The experiments consist of being injected with a mysterious serum, and then being forced to watch films of extreme violence and perversity for hours on end.

 .Strapped into a seat before a large screen, Alex is forced to watch an unrelenting series of violent acts.^ There is also the lack of remorse and guilt in Alex for all of his violent acts.

 ^ Everyone remembers the first act, with Alex, this violent, aggressive youth who we are obsessed with, identify with, but by whom we are also repulsed.
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 ^ Their behavioral program, which is violent in its own nature, victimizes Alex; making the actors on stage, symbols to the temptations that Alex can no longer act normally of his own will due to trauma.

 During the sessions, Alex begins to realise that not only the violent acts but the music on the soundtrack is triggering his nausea attacks (Kubrick's film version narrows this down so that only Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has this effect.) .Alex pleads with the supervising doctors to remove the music, crying that it is a sin to take away his love of music and adding that "Ludwig Van" did nothing wrong and "only made music", claiming that it was wrong to use the composer in that way, but they refuse, saying that it is for his own good and that the music may be the "punishment element". By the end of the treatment, Alex is unable to listen to his favourite classical pieces without experiencing nausea and distress.^ So by the end of his treatment, Alex is incapable of violence.
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 ^ Alex : It's a sin..using Ludwig van like that.
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 ^ Using Ludwig van like that!
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.A few weeks later, Alex is presented to an audience of prison and government officials as a successfully rehabilitated inmate and potential member of society.^ The audience, as Alex, then follows in his dystopia and watches him perform a few more reckless and hedonistic acts.

 ^ He is released after a fortnight ( two weeks) of treatment and after a few encounters with past victims finds himself at the HOME of a radical writer (who ironically had also been a victim of Alexs, but does not recognize him) who is strongly opposed to the new treatment the government has subjected him to.

 ^ As for the "methods of society" that you refer to, remember that those were not the ideas of a typically fascist government, but instead of a traditionally liberal idea that prisoners can be reformed.
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 .Alex's conditioning makes him unable to defend himself against a pummelling bully and cripples him with nausea when the sight of a scantily clad woman arouses his predatory sexual impulses.^ Also, Alex appears on occasion to sincerely protest the evil of others and on one occasion even calls his conditioning against classical music a "sin".

 ^ The third type of clockwork orange is the one which Alex undergoes when he is conditioned by the Government against certain desires for violence and classical music.

 ^ He’s cultured, is Alex, and while his culturedness obviously does not equal civilisation and goodness (a point he himself is quick to make), it does put him a notch above the average hooligan.
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 .The prison chaplain rises to denounce the treatment and accuses the state of stripping Alex of the ability to choose good over evil.^ Burgess is correct when he states that evil has to exist along with good in order that moral choice may operate.

 ^ There is no sense of moral obligation or the possibility of moral guilt hovering over Alex when he chooses evil.

 ^ Burgesss definition of moral freedom as the ability to perform both good and evil is presented by implication in his discussion of the first kind of clockwork orange.

 ."Padre, these are subtleties", a government official replies.^ MINISTER Padre, these are subtleties.
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 ^ Minister : Padre, these are subtleties!
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 ."The point is that it works". And so Alex is released into society.^ Revenge is further presented before the described sequence when Alex was sent back into society ‘cured’ from his violent nature.

Part 3: After prison

.The Ludovico treatment leaves him ill when he attempts violence, so he is powerless.^ Mum : Oh leave him be, Joe, it's the treatment.
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 ^ Whatever drug he’s been injected with causes him to become violently and physically ill whenever he has violent thoughts or feels pleasure in violence.
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 ^ Its experimental impulsiveness leaves it edgy, and its forceful treatment of social violence leaves it close to unmissable.
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 .Alex returns home joyful at the thought of starting afresh, but finds that his parents have rented out his room to a lodger named Joe, essentially "replacing" their son.^ Although in the end society learns it's lesson and ends the experimental treatments, Alex's parents still welcome their madden, rapist, criminal of a son back into the home, and have always allowed him complete free-will.

 ^ The architecture plays into the scene because Alex is used to getting everything he wants, he controls his parents at home, and his gang of hoodlums.

 ^ The real surprise is the last sentence where you find out just how young Alex is for someone who has been doing the things he does for as long as he's been doing them.
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 .Alex runs into old victims, and is powerless when they seek their revenge.^ In fact, once the Ludovico Technique foils Alex's will to destruction, this former victim, along with a host of other irate old people, assault Alex at the public library.
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 ^ He never seeks to justify Alex's actions and believes that his crimes "must be checked and punished" in a "properly run society" (Burgess, Contemporary Literary Criticism 38).

 ^ The individual victim's anger becomes the group's communal anger, his vengeance becomes their vengeance and, conceptually, they symbolize the weak and helpless seeking vengeance on the cruel and strong.
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 Despondently wandering, Alex stops at the Korova Milk Bar and drinks synthemesc-laced milk, as opposed to his usual drencrom-laced milk. He visits the music store, but the technique has rendered him incapable of listening to his beloved classical music. .Alex decides to commit suicide, yet is unable to because the technique prevents him from committing any act of violence, including against himself.^ On the other hand, his conditioning, based on physical pain, did stop him from performing acts of violence.

 ^ Our antihero, Alex, commits horrific acts of violence with impunity, is caught and subjected to experiments which make him incapable of being aggressive, is beaten up by his former victims, manages to undo the scientific conditioning, goes back to being violent, then gets tired of it and decides he wants to have a son.
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 ^ Gardner also writes about how Alex (the main character) commits horrible acts of violence while maintaining a "cheerful"(85) attitude, which makes the entire situation comical in a dark, morbid way.

 .In the public library, Alex is quickly recognised by the elderly librarian whom he had beaten up with his droogs in chapter one.^ An example of this is when Alex is betrayed by his droogs, the police force beat him up for hours.

 ^ At fifteen years old Alex is set up by his Droogs (Pete, Dim, and Georgie) and was sent to jail and convicted of murder.

 ^ The old man whom Alex and his droogs harass at the novel's outset might be any old man.
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 .With his friends, the librarian attacks and beats Alex.^ Sometimes Alex has to fight to maintain his dominance, by attacking his friends and cutting Dim's hand with a knife.

 The police (summoned by the librarian) turn out to be Dim and Billyboy. .Taking advantage of their positions, they take Alex to the town's edge, rape and beat him, and leave him for dead.^ They bring him to the edge of town and brutally beat him.
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 ^ They steal, women and children are raped and at the tender age of 15, Alex is finally captured by the authorities and incarcerated after murdering an elderly woman.
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 ^ In the book, Alex takes two ten-year-old girls to his room, gets them drunk, and rapes them.
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Alex wanders in a daze through the countryside until he collapses at the door of an isolated cottage. Too late he realises this is the home he and his droogs invaded at the start of the book. He is taken in by F. Alexander, the husband of the woman the droogs gang-raped; Mr. Alexander doesn't recognise Alex because the droogs were wearing masks during the assault. We learn that Mrs. Alexander died of the injuries inflicted during the rape, and her husband has decided to continue "where her fragrant memory persists" despite the horrid memories. Alex has been careless with words during his time in Mr. Alexander's care, and the writer begins to suspect they have met before. Mr. Alexander recognises Alex from newspaper publicity about the behaviour modification treatment, and sees an opportunity to use him as a political weapon by turning him into a poster child for the victims of fascism.
One of Mr. Alexander's political activist friends takes Alex aside and puts the question to him bluntly: Alex, cornered, makes a non-denial denial by saying "Lord knows I've suffered". "We'll speak no more of it", the friend assures him, but later on Alex is taken to another house, locked into a room, and tormented with classical music, triggering the maddening effect of the Ludovico treatment. Driven to insanity by the music, Alex jumps from his bedroom window in an attempt to end his life.
.Alex wakes up in a hospital, where he learns that the government, trying to reverse the bad publicity it incurred in the wake of Alex's suicide attempt, has reversed the effects of the Ludovico treatment.^ In fact, once the Ludovico Technique foils Alex's will to destruction, this former victim, along with a host of other irate old people, assault Alex at the public library.
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 ^ But Alex is still tormented by his lack of choice, so tormented, that he even attempts suicide.

 ^ It is true that the Government tries to make Alex totally good through conditioning; however, since it is a coerced goodness, against Alexs will, total goodness is not achieved.

 Mr. Alexander has been incarcerated in a mental institution, "for his own protection and for yours," Alex is told. In return for agreeing to cooperate with the powers that be, Alex is promised a cushy job at high salary. .His parents offer to take him back in, and Alex happily ponders returning to his life of ultra-violence.^ The viewer is comforted that young Alex is able to overcome being cured and brainwashed, yet disturbed through the lens of a moral upbringing at his choice to return to a life bludgeoned with ultra violence.
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 ^ Alex, apparently, didnt feel any moral pain when he indulged in ultra-violence.

 ^ Although in the end society learns it's lesson and ends the experimental treatments, Alex's parents still welcome their madden, rapist, criminal of a son back into the home, and have always allowed him complete free-will.
.In the final chapter, Alex finds himself back at the milkbar.^ In that chapter, Alex himself states: .

 ^ [SPOILER WARNING] In Chapter 21, Alex-as-unguided-youth finds guidance within himself that he did not find in the state's medical manipulation of him.
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 ^ Alex states his intention of finding a wife to mother his son which is "like a new chapter beginning".

 .He is half-heartedly preparing for yet another night of crime with a new trio of droogs, who are bemused at the discovery of a photograph of a baby in Alex's pocket.^ Crime, to Alex, is another art form.
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 ^ A Clockwork Orange is a tale of little Alex and his gang of droogs, who run amok in a fury of robbing, beating, and raping.
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 ^ Yet at the end you're moving with him, crying with him, and wondering all the time who exactly is the victim and what exactly is the crime.
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 .After watching them beat an innocent stranger walking home with a newspaper, Alex begins to feel bored with his life of violence.^ Old Tramps begin to beat at Alex.
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 ^ Alex is given injections and made to watch films of rape and violence and the mixture of these images and the drug cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence.

 ^ The beginning of the story takes us through a night in the life of Alex and his Droogs, and details the adventures that occupy their time.

 .He abandons the gang, then has a chance encounter with his old droog Pete, who has reformed and married.^ A Clockwork Orange is a tale of little Alex and his gang of droogs, who run amok in a fury of robbing, beating, and raping.
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 ^ He is attacked by an old man he abused and by the police now including some of the former gang members who further brutalize him.
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 ^ At fifteen years old Alex is set up by his Droogs (Pete, Dim, and Georgie) and was sent to jail and convicted of murder.

 .Alex acknowledges to the reader that the reason he was carrying a photograph of a baby is because he would like a son of his own.^ EM Would you like me to make you a nice cup of tea, son?
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 ^ Well, over my dead corpse you will, because you see, they've let me be more like a son to them than like a lodger.
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 ^ I would recommend this to anyone who likes to be challenged and who likes to ponder their own nature.
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 .He begins contemplating giving up crime to become a productive member of society and start a family, while reflecting on the notion that his own children could be just as destructive as he was himself.^ Alex has lived a life of horror and crime, but has the opportunity to make a change of his own free will, and decides to do just that.

 ^ Playboy Playmate Alison Waite gives you the insiders guide on how to pick up your very own Playboy...
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Omission of the final chapter

.The book has three parts of seven chapters each.^ The book is divided into three distinct parts.
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 ^ The book gets easier to read in part two and part three is very comprehensible.
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 ^ Be sure to read the introduction before or after you read the book; it will help you understand the allegorical subtext behind the story as well as the controversy surrounding the final chapter (make sure you get a copy that includes that chapter as well--it's chapter 7 of part three).
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 .Burgess has stated that the total of 21 chapters was an intentional nod to the age of 21 being recognised as a milestone in human maturation.^ Alex states his intention of finding a wife to mother his son which is "like a new chapter beginning".

 ^ He does not consider the possibility of totally good human beings that consistently choose good, either morally or amorally.

 ^ [SPOILER WARNING] In Chapter 21, Alex-as-unguided-youth finds guidance within himself that he did not find in the state's medical manipulation of him.
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 .The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986.[1] In the introduction to the updated American text (these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U.S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around (a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia—the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong).^ There are two versions of this book, one containing the final chapter and one not.
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 ^ These moments are all delivered with panache.
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 ^ Burgess introduces the idea of new alternatives in the final chapter (the one that is missing from the American version).
.At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U.S. version, so that the tale would end on a note of bleak despair, with young Alex succumbing to his darker nature—an ending which the publisher insisted would be 'more realistic' and appealing to a U.S. audience.^ The "extra" chapter is actually how Burgess wanted it to end, but the American editors cut it out.
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 ^ The new American edition of the novel A Clockwork Orange features a final chapter that was omitted from the original American edition against the authors preference.

 ^ By ending the tale on this low note, society seems better off with Alex conditioned and rendered harmless (Rabinovitz 55).

 .The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on this "badly flawed" (Burgess' words, ibid.^ In Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, Alex feeds perfectly into the theme of madness within the film.

 ^ It's at first a visual mix of Stanley Kubrick's famous and controversial film A Clockwork Orange.
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 ^ Book or not, it is Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film of "A Clockwork Orange" that is guiding this production.
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 ) American edition of the book. .Kubrick called Chapter 21 "an extra chapter" and claimed[2] that he had not read the original version until he had virtually finished the screenplay, and that he had never given serious consideration to using it.^ I think that's a pretty good reading of the last chapter - although I don't know if I would use the word "rebel", per se.
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 ^ I recently realized that I had never read the original novel, so I picked up a copy.
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 ^ I read the complete version; the one with 21 chapters; the one that was not truncated by the American publishing industry and then preserved forever in film my the esteemed Mr. Kubrick.
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Characters

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  • Alex: The novel's anti-hero and leader among his droogs.^ This gives the reader a sense of intimacy with Alex and his droogs (friends) due to the fact that the adults in the novel cant understand what they are govoreeting (saying).

     ^ Those who have seen the film will know that Alex (the anti-hero) and his droogs (friends) speak a made-up language full of Russian loanwords, Shakespearean and Biblical influences and Cockney rhyming slang.
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     ^ The Droogs dress similarly as well, but in this case their leader looks no different, the reason being that technically Alex is just one of them, the charismatic one among a group of “brothers”.

     .He often refers to himself as "Your Humble Narrator". (Having seduced two girls in a music shop, Alex refers to himself as "Alexander the Large" while ravishing them; this was later the basis for Alex's claimed surname DeLarge in the 1971 film.^ EQUILIBRIUM (2002) Often referred to as ?a film that cautions us of the times we live in?, Equilibrium provides a stark view of what the future might hold.
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     ^ There is also a disruption of the linear flow of narrative aside from this private language; Alex (Our Humble Narrator) tells the story in a remembering type sequence, but often interjects with thoughts or questions posed directly at the reader.

     ^ The dialect of Alex, your Humble Narrator, can be somewhat off-putting at first, which is something that Burgess himself admits in the introduction.
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     )
  • George or Georgie: Effectively Alex's greedy second-in-command. .Georgie attempts to undermine Alex's status as leader of the gang.^ In a dehumanized world where sex and violence reigns, Alex, gang leader and charismatic hooligan, exerts a blind terror.
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     ^ We discover that Alex, though self-appointed leader of his small gang of friends/thugs, is not a rare creature in this brave new world.
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     .He later dies from a botched robbery attempt during Alex's stay in prison.
  • Pete: The most rational and least violent member of the gang.^ It also appears as though Alex has more difficulty keeping his gang members ‘in line’.

     ^ Along with providing the score, The Ex appears onstage as members of anti-hero Alex's notorious gang.
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     ^ The most important characteristic of the "head of gang" versus "member" relationship in both films is the fact that both leaders need their followers and vice versa.

     .He is the only one who doesn't take particular sides when the droogs fight among themselves.^ There were a couple kids from my high school who loved this book—one guy in particular I could not stand .
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     ^ In addition, he encounters one of his former droogs who is now married, and it gets him thinking that it is possible to move beyond what he was.
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     ^ Revenge is quickly taken by the ones who were once victimised by violence, becoming perpetrators of violence themselves.

     .He later meets and marries a girl, renouncing his old ways and even losing his former speech patterns.^ Alex meets these two girls, seduces them with seductive licks of a popsicle (some charm) and then take them back to his place to have his way with them.

     .A chance encounter with Pete in the final chapter influences Alex's wishes to reform and become a productive member of society.
  • Dim: An idiotic and thoroughly gormless member of the gang, persistently condescended to by Alex, but respected to some extent by his droogs for his formidable fighting abilities, his weapon of choice being a length of bike chain.^ It also appears as though Alex has more difficulty keeping his gang members ‘in line’.

     ^ Evidenced by some of the conflicts between him and his droogs, where the others demanded a “new way” that entails no longer picking on Dim, it is clear that Alex is only a leader as long as the others allow for it.

     ^ After a full minute of this, they drag him out, halt-drowned, DIM (laughing) Be viddying you some more, some time Alex.
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     .He later becomes a police officer, exacting his revenge on Alex for the abuse he once suffered under his command.
  • P. R. Deltoid: An anally retentive social worker assigned the task of keeping Alex on the straight and narrow.^ Alex’s gang become police officers and get revenge on Alex from a new level of authority.

     ^ He is brutalized by the police, betrayed by his fellow droogs, tortured with aversion therapy, duped by his sexual partners, humiliated by social workers, manipulated by politicians and rejected by his mother.
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     ^ While Alex would probably like to think that his friends are disposable, his social status would suffer if he didn’t have a band of deviants cheering him on.

     .He seemingly has no clue about dealing with young people, and is devoid of empathy or understanding for his troublesome charge.^ That's about education, and providing somewhere for young people to channel that energy."
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     .Indeed, when Alex is arrested for murdering an old woman, and then ferociously beaten by several police officers, Deltoid simply spits on him.
  • The prison chaplain: The character who first questions whether or not forced goodness is really better than chosen wickedness.^ Burgess knows that it is better to choose to be evil, than to be forced to be good.

     ^ His message is that it is better to have the choice to do bad than to be forced to do good.

     ^ Of whether it is better to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good.
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     .The only character who is truly concerned about Alex's welfare; he is not taken seriously by Alex, though.^ Alex’s character in A Clockwork Orange was one without moral centre, living only for the pleasure he could gain from the pain of others.

     ^ This creates doubt about the sanity of the director for creating such an insane character as the Joker or Alex.

     ^ Due to the first person perspective Alex is the only character that the audience has a chance to relate to and empathize with.

     .(He is nicknamed by Alex "prison charlie" or "chaplin", a nod to Charlie Chaplin.^ ALEX (V.O.) It was my rabbit to help the prison charlie with the Sunday service.
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     ^ ALEX (V.O.) It had been arranged by the prison charlie, as part of my further education to read him the Bible.
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     )
  • Billyboy: A rival of Alex's. .Early on in the story, Alex and his droogs battle Billyboy and his droogs, which ends abruptly when the police arrive.^ To this end, we have cast women in the roles of Alex and his Droogs.
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     ^ Even though the original ending is not a traditional one, in that Alex submits to the demands of society but continues to be unrepentant, it remains true to the spirit of the story.
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     ^ In the world of Alex and his droogs, all relations with other human beings are instrumental means to a selfish, brutal, hedonistic end.
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     Later, after Alex is released from prison, Billyboy (along with Dim, who like Billboy has become a police officer himself) rescue Alex from a mob then subsequently beat him.
  • The governor: The man who decides to let Alex "choose" to be the first reformed by the Ludovico Technique.
  • Dr. Brodsky: A malevolent scientist and co-founder of the Ludovico Technique. He appears friendly and almost paternal towards Alex at first, before forcing him into the theatre to be psychologically tortured.
  • Dr. Branom: Brodsky's colleague and co-founder of the Ludovico Technique. .He seems much more passive than Brodsky, and says considerably less.
  • F. Alexander: An author who was in the process of typing his magnum opus A Clockwork Orange, when Alex and his droogs broke into his house, beat him and then brutally gang raped his wife, which caused her subsequent death.^ A Clockwork Orange is a tale of little Alex and his gang of droogs, who run amok in a fury of robbing, beating, and raping.
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     ^ Alex finds the gang waiting for him.
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     ^ By resigning Alex to the watered-down violence of the harmless-sounding "teddy-boys", a London gang whose burgeoning brutality inspired the novel (Burgess, Contemporary Literary Criticism 38), A Clockwork Orange would more resemble a bad after-school special than the caustic moral commentary as which it is hailed.

     .He is left deeply scarred by these events, and when he encounters Alex two years later he uses him as a guinea pig in a sadistic experiment intended to prove the inefficiency of the Ludovico Technique.
  • Otto Skadelig: a fictional Danish composer.^ After his imprisonment, the government uses him as guinea-pig in experiments intended to suppress criminality.
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     ^ This is reflective of what the Ludovico Technique proposed to do both to Alex and for society as a whole.

     ^ What gets the "Clockwork" story ticking is when Alex is offered up as a guinea pig for a new form of aversion therapy that makes him violently ill anytime he feels like revisiting his old hobby of ultra-violence.
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     The first movement of his third symphony is violent in style. .It prompts Alex to attempt suicide.^ While Alex is in the hospital following his suicide attempt, the tragedy of his oppression is highly publicized, in an attempt to stop public criticism, the state "fixed Alex."

     ^ But Alex is still tormented by his lack of choice, so tormented, that he even attempts suicide.

     ^ Alex eventually attempts suicide and the State is forced to admit that the therapy was a mistake and cures him again.

     His surname means "harmful" in Danish and Norwegian.[3]

Analysis

Title

.Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange".¹ Due to his time serving in the British Colonial Office in Malaysia, Burgess thought that the phrase could be used punningly to refer to a mechanically responsive (clockwork) human (orang, Malay for "man").^ Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange" in 1962.
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 ^ The title "Clockwork Orange" by chrth .
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 ^ He is no longer a human clockwork orange.
Burgess wrote an introduction to the 1986 edition, titled A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty state".
.In his essay "Clockwork Oranges" ², Burgess asserts that "this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian or mechanical laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness". This title alludes to the protagonist's positively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will.^ The title "Clockwork Orange" by chrth .
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 ^ As the title suggest, he is transformed into "a clockwork orange," an "organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness"(Burgess qtd.

 ^ In his introduction, he states that if one "can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State."

Point of view

.A Clockwork Orange is written using a narrative first-person singular perspective of a seemingly biased and unreliable narrator.^ In addition, the author uses first person narration as a "trick" to build reader sympathy for Alex and augment his humanity in the process (Stinsen 79).

 ^ A Clockwork Orange is the SiLo Theatre's first production outside its own theatre walls.
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 ^ It's at first a visual mix of Stanley Kubrick's famous and controversial film A Clockwork Orange.
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 .The protagonist, Alex, never justifies his actions in the narration, giving a sense that he is somewhat sincere; a narrator who, as unlikeable as he may attempt to seem, evokes pity from the reader by telling of his unending suffering, and later through his realization that the cycle will never end.^ There is also a disruption of the linear flow of narrative aside from this private language; Alex (Our Humble Narrator) tells the story in a remembering type sequence, but often interjects with thoughts or questions posed directly at the reader.

 ^ Alex is a child of the near future, who is merciless and enjoys crime and torture stating that, “it was an evening of some small energy expenditures” to summarize his brutal actions.

 ^ This inspires Alex to realize that it is indeed his choice to do good deeds, and that's what ultimately matters in the end.
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 .Alex's perspective is effective in that the way that he describes events is easy to relate to, even if the situations themselves are not.^ Due to the first person perspective Alex is the only character that the audience has a chance to relate to and empathize with.

Use of slang

Main article: Nadsat
.The book, narrated by Alex, contains many words in a slang argot which Burgess invented for the book, called Nadsat.^ Yet, through it all, the author maintains that he took no pleasure in documenting Alex's brutality and even invented Nadsat in an effort to make the violence symbolic (Burgess, Contemporary Literary Criticism 38).

 ^ The adolescent Alex was operating under what Burgess in his introduction calls Original Sin.

 ^ When Burgess originally published A Clockwork Orange , it contained a twenty-first chapter which showed Alex jaded with "ultraviolence" and ready to settle down (Burgess, A Clockwork Orange 207-219).

 .It is a mix of modified Slavic words, rhyming slang, derived Russian (like "baboochka"), and words invented by Burgess himself.^ Burgess describes the lingo in terms of a sum of its parts: "Odd bits of old rhyming slang...a bit of gypsy talk, too.

 ^ Written in a modified, teenage slang (which is actually a mix of English and Russian words I've heard), the book narrates the adolescence of an ill-behaved teenager named Alex.
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 ^ Alex spends his days causing mischief with his band of "droogs"--one of many slang words Burgess invented to create this hyper-real universe--including rape and murder.
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 .For instance, these terms have the following meanings in Russian - 'droog' means 'friend' ; 'korova' means 'cow'; 'golova' (gulliver) means 'head'; 'malchick' or 'malchickiwick' means 'boy'; 'soomka' means 'sack' or 'bag'; 'Bog' means 'God'; 'khorosho' (horrorshow) means 'good', 'prestoopnick' means 'criminal'; 'rooka' is 'hand', 'cal' is 'crap', 'veck' ('chelloveck') is 'man' or 'guy'; 'litso' is 'face'; 'malenky' is 'little'; and so on.^ There were vecks [guys] and ptitsas [girls], both young and starry [ancient or old], lying on the ground screaming for mercy, and I was smecking [laughing] all over my rot [mouth] and grinding my boot in their litsos [faces] (33).

 .One of Alex's doctors explains the language to a colleague as "Odd bits of old rhyming slang; a bit of gypsy talk, too.^ Burgess describes the lingo in terms of a sum of its parts: "Odd bits of old rhyming slang...a bit of gypsy talk, too.

 ^ That's "shoe" in Nadsat, the made-up language the play uses as its expression of teenage rhyming slang.
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 ^ Those who have seen the film will know that Alex (the anti-hero) and his droogs (friends) speak a made-up language full of Russian loanwords, Shakespearean and Biblical influences and Cockney rhyming slang.
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 .But most of the roots are Slav propaganda.^ But most of the roots are Slav.

 Subliminal penetration." Some words are not derived from anything, but merely easy to guess, e.g. 'in-out, in-out' or 'the old in-out' means sexual intercourse. 'Cutter', however, means money, because 'cutter' rhymes with 'bread-and-butter'; this is rhyming slang, which is intended to be impenetrable to outsiders (especially eavesdropping policemen).
.In the first edition of the book, no key was provided, and the reader was left to interpret the meaning from the context.^ Does this mean I should have a First Edition copy of A Scanner Darkly in my paws when I go see that?
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 ^ Some of the things in this book that really struck me as interesting were: --Nadsat: it was a bit difficult to understand at first but I was surprised by how quickly I picked up on the made-up words and how easy it was to deduce their meanings in the context of the sentence.
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 ^ Anthony Burgess, the novels author, provided for the new edition an introduction to explain not only the significance of the twenty-first chapter but also the purpose of the entire book which was the fundamental importance of moral choice.

 .In his appendix to the restored edition, Burgess explained that the slang would keep the book from seeming dated, and served to muffle "the raw response of pornography" from the acts of violence.^ Anthony Burgess, the novels author, provided for the new edition an introduction to explain not only the significance of the twenty-first chapter but also the purpose of the entire book which was the fundamental importance of moral choice.

 ^ I would agree that it was a great book, but I haven't read any of Anthony Burgess's work to compare ACO to.

 ^ But even if he had, such guilt would not be strong enough to stop him from performing acts of violence.

 .Furthermore, in a novel where a form of brainwashing plays a role, the narrative itself brainwashes the reader into understanding Nadsat.^ Furthermore, Nadsat is a good linguistic exercise and offers some compelling insights into the origins of slang.

 ^ This gives the reader a sense of intimacy with Alex and his droogs (friends) due to the fact that the adults in the novel cant understand what they are govoreeting (saying).

 ^ Burgess delves into his own experience with a nadsat like Alex to give this novel its force and to give validity to its ultimate message.
.The term "ultraviolence", referring to excessive and/or unjustified violence, was coined by Burgess in the book, which includes the phrase "do the ultra-violent". The term's association with aesthetic violence has led to its use in the media.^ A Dutch-language theatrical version of Anthony Burgess' dark novel of futuristic ultra-violence, "A Clockwork Orange."
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 ^ A drug injected shortly before the production induces vomiting and dry retching which he learns to associate with thoughts of violence (Burgess, Orange 120).

 ^ What I never knew about the book, except in vague references, was the deeply innovative way in which Anthony Burgess used the evolution of slang and culture to create a language of the youth.
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 [4][5][6][7] In fact, the second-highest difficulty level in the first-person shooter Doom is named "Ultra Violence."

Author dismissal

.In 1985, Burgess published the book Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (Heinemann, London), and while discussing Lady Chatterley's Lover in the concluding chapter, he compared that novel's notoriety with A Clockwork Orange: "We all suffer from the popular desire to make the known notorious.^ Anthony Burgess published A Clockwork Orange in 1962.
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 ^ I loved the poetic discussion of the clockwork orange.
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 ^ The grants will support SiLO to undertake a youth development program, and adapt and present two works, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood.
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 .The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence.^ Firstly, it's not a well-known stage play, but it's a well known film and book, so it's interesting to see it in 3-D. "Secondly, we're developing a new style of theatre.
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 ^ At the time, I felt that it was a film that was glorifying rape, violence and the degradation of women.

 ^ As most books written before the age of user-friendly word processors, it's very short, only about 200 pages.
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 The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation, and the same may be said of Lawrence and Lady Chatterley's lover."

Awards and nominations and rankings

  • 1983 – Prometheus Award (Preliminary Nominee)
  • 1999 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)
  • 2002 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)
  • 2003 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)
  • 2006 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)[8]
  • 2008 – Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award)
The novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.[9]

Adaptations

Cinema

.The best known adaptation of the novel to other forms is the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick.^ Book or not, it is Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film of "A Clockwork Orange" that is guiding this production.
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 ^ As a Stanley Kubrick film, however, Orange is an immediate shocker.

 ^ It's at first a visual mix of Stanley Kubrick's famous and controversial film A Clockwork Orange.
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.A 1965 film by Andy Warhol entitled Vinyl was an adaptation of Burgess' novel.^ Foster is working from all three sources of A Clockwork Orange: Burgess' novel, Kubrick's film, and Burgess' later stage-play.
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 ^ The play is a loose adaptation of the Anthony Burgess book and the Stanley Kubrick film and has managed to steer clear of being too much like either.
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 ^ Text to Stage A chance to explore Anthony Burgess's dark and violent novel.This will be an opportunity for students to explore the adaptation process.
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Television

.Excerpts from the first two chapters of the novel were dramatised and broadcast on BBC TV's programme Tonight, 1962 (now lost, believed wiped).^ The omission of the twenty-first chapter resulted, according to Burgess, in the reduction of the novel from fiction to fable, something untrue to life.

Stage

.After Kubrick's film was released, Burgess wrote a Clockwork Orange stage play.^ Foster is working from all three sources of A Clockwork Orange: Burgess' novel, Kubrick's film, and Burgess' later stage-play.
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 ^ Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange" in 1962.
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 ^ Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess did not approve of the Stanley Kubrick film and wrote his own stage version, described as a play with music.
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 In it, Dr. Branom defects from the psychiatric clinic when he grasps that the aversion treatment has destroyed Alex's ability to enjoy music. The play restores the novel's original ending.
In 1988, a German adaptation of Clockwork Orange at the intimate theatre of Bad Godesberg featured a musical score by the German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen which, combined with orchestral clips of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and "other dirty melodies" (so stated by the subtitle), was released on the album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau. The track Hier kommt Alex became one of the band's signature songs.
.In February 1990, another musical version was produced at the Barbican Theatre in London by the Royal Shakespeare Company.^ He has worked with the Oval House and Royal Court theatre companies.
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 .Titled 'A Clockwork Orange:2004', it received mostly negative reviews, with John Peter of The Sunday Times of London calling it only an intellectual 'Rocky Horror Show' and John Gross of The Sunday Telegraph calling it a clockwork lemon. Even Burgess himself, who wrote the script based on his novel, was disappointed.^ John Gardner wrote that A Clockwork Orange was "...Burgess's most brilliant and blackest achievement."

 ^ Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess .
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 .According to The Evening Standard, he called the score, written by Bono and the Edge of the rock group U2, neo-wallpaper. Burgess had originally worked alongside the director of the production, Ron Daniels, and envisioned a musical score that was entirely classical.^ Also, Alex appears on occasion to sincerely protest the evil of others and on one occasion even calls his conditioning against classical music a "sin".

 ^ The adolescent Alex was operating under what Burgess in his introduction calls Original Sin.

 ^ Never leaving their side is the sensational Martyn Niele (original cast member of The Bloo Lips), as the productions Master of Ceremonies, Musical Director and Arranger.
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 Unhappy with the decision to abandon that score, he heavily criticised the band's experimental mix of Hip Hop, liturgical and gothic music. Lise Hand of The Irish Independent reported U2's The Edge as saying that Burgess's original conception was "a score written by a novelist rather than a songwriter". Calling it "meaningless glitz", Jane Edwardes of 20/20 Magazine said that watching this production was "like being invited to an expensive French Restaurant - and being served with a Big Mac".
In 2001, UNI Theatre (Mississauga, Ontario) presented the Canadian premiere of the play under the direction of Terry Costa. [10]
.In 2002, Godlight Theatre Company presented the New York Premiere adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 'A Clockwork Orange' at Manhattan Theatre Source.^ The grants will support SiLO to undertake a youth development program, and adapt and present two works, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood.
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 ^ A Clockwork Orange is the SiLo Theatre's first production outside its own theatre walls.
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 ^ Although Burgess considers one kind of clockwork orange inhuman, he does allow for another kind of clockwork orange that is human.

 .The production went on to play at the SoHo Playhouse (2002), Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004), 59E59 Theaters (2005) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2005).^ There have been a few different versions including starting with Burgess' own A Clockwork Orange 2004, regular theater adaptations of that and the BBC play with music.
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 ^ The play is South Camden Community's first production in its new 150-seat theatre.
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 ^ Godlight Theatre Company in association with Cahoots Theatre Company - Edinburgh Festival Fringe 8/5-28/05 .
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 While at Edinburgh, the production received rave reviews from the press while playing to sold-out audiences. The production was directed by Godlight's Artistic Director, Joe Tantalo.
.In 2003, Los Angeles director Brad Mays[11] and the Ark Theatre Company[12] staged a controversial multi-media adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, which was named "Pick Of The Week" by the LA Weekly and nominated for three of the 2004 LA Weekly Theater Awards: Direction, Revival Production (of a 20th-century work), and Leading Female Performance.^ Vanessa Claire Smith is the recipient of the 2004 LA Weekly Theater Award for "Best Leading Female Performance" for her role in the Whitefire Theater's production of "A Clockwork Orange."
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 ^ Whitefire Theater, Los Angeles 04 .
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 ^ September 12-Los Angeles, CA - ARK Theatre Company, led by former RSC member Paul Wagar, continues its fourth season with Anthony Burgess' masterpiece of 20th century satire, A Clockwork Orange, scheduled for an eight-week run at The Whitefire Theatre, 13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA from September 6 through October 26, 2003.
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 [13] This inventive production utilised three separate video streams outputted to seven onstage video monitors - six 19 inch and one 40 inch. .In order to preserve the first-person narrative of the book, a pre-recorded video stream of Alex, "your humble narrator", was projected onto the 40 inch monitor,[14] thereby freeing the onstage character during passages which would have been awkward or impossible to sustain in the breaking of the fourth wall.^ There is also a disruption of the linear flow of narrative aside from this private language; Alex (Our Humble Narrator) tells the story in a remembering type sequence, but often interjects with thoughts or questions posed directly at the reader.

 ^ The dialect of Alex, your Humble Narrator, can be somewhat off-putting at first, which is something that Burgess himself admits in the introduction.
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 ^ Moreover, without the disclosure of Alex's view point as he relates his misadventures, the first person narrative looses its significance (Tilton 104).

 [15] .According to the LA Weekly, "Mays' visceral, fast-paced multimedia show brings into stark relief the Freudian struggle between the primal self and the civilised self for domination over the human spirit.^ Mays' visceral, fast-paced multimedia show brings into stark relief the Freudian struggle between the primal self and the civilized self for domination over the human spirit.
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 ^ Kids do get into trouble and make stupid decisions - even so it doesn't glorify violence and shows the distinction between right and wrong.
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 ^ At what point does a child struggling with self-identity and values deserve to be deprived of choice and manipulated into submission?
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 .The director deftly conveys the horror of violence by subjecting the audience to an onslaught of images of war, torture and hardcore porn projected on seven TV screens."^ The director deftly conveys the horror of violence by subjecting the audience to an onslaught of images of war, torture and hardcore porn projected on six TV screens.
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 ^ Often the director creates visual images that convey all the information needed and then undermines the power of the scene by introducing unnecessary dialogue.
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Release details

  • 1962, UK, William Heinemann (ISBN ?), December 1962, Hardcover
  • 1962, US, W W Norton & Co Ltd (ISBN ?), 1962, Hardcover
  • 1963, US, W W Norton & Co Ltd (ISBN 0-345-28411-9), 1963, Paperback
  • 1965, US, Ballantine Books (ISBN 0-345-01708-0), 1965, Paperback
  • 1969, US, Ballantine Books (ISBN ?), 1969, Paperback
  • 1971, US, Ballantine Books (ISBN 0-345-02624-1), 1971, Paperback
  • 1972, UK, Lorrimer, (ISBN 0-85647-019-8), 11 September 1972, Hardcover
  • 1972, UK, Penguin Books Ltd (ISBN 0-14-003219-3), 25 January 1973, Paperback
  • 1973, US, Caedmon Records, 1973, Vinyl LP (First 4 chapters read by Anthony Burgess)
  • 1977, US, Ballantine Books (ISBN 0-345-27321-4), 12 September 1977, Paperback
  • 1979, US, Ballantine Books (ISBN 0-345-31483-2), April 1979, Paperback
  • 1983, US, Ballantine Books (ISBN 0-345-31483-2), 12 July 1983, Unbound
  • 1986, US, W. W. Norton & Company (ISBN 0-393-31283-6), November 1986, Paperback (Adds final chapter not previously available in U.S. versions)
  • 1987, UK, W W Norton & Co Ltd (ISBN 0-393-02439-3), July 1987, Hardcover
  • 1988, US, Ballantine Books (ISBN 0-345-35443-5), March 1988, Paperback
  • 1995, UK, W W Norton & Co Ltd (ISBN 0-393-31283-6), June 1995, Paperback
  • 1996, UK, Penguin Books Ltd (ISBN 0-14-018882-7), 25 April 1996, Paperback
  • 1996, UK, HarperAudio (ISBN 0-694-51752-6), September 1996, Audio Cassette
  • 1997, UK, Heyne Verlag (ISBN 3-453-13079-0), 31 January 1997, Paperback
  • 1998, UK, Penguin Books Ltd (ISBN 0-14-027409-X), 3 September 1998, Paperback
  • 1999, UK, Rebound by Sagebrush (ISBN 0-8085-8194-5), October 1999, Library Binding
  • 2000, UK, Penguin Books Ltd (ISBN 0-14-118260-1), 24 February 2000, Paperback
  • 2000, UK, Penguin Books Ltd (ISBN 0-14-029105-9), 2 March 2000, Paperback
  • 2000, UK, Turtleback Books (ISBN 0-606-19472-X), November 2000, Hardback
  • 2001, UK, Penguin Books Ltd (ISBN 0-14-100855-5), 27 September 2001, Paperback
  • 2002, UK, Thorndike Press (ISBN 0-7862-4644-8), October 2002, Hardback
  • 2005, UK, Buccaneer Books (ISBN 1-56849-511-0), 29 January 2005, Library Binding

See also

References

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  • A Clockwork Orange: A Play With Music.^ There have been a few different versions including starting with Burgess' own A Clockwork Orange 2004, regular theater adaptations of that and the BBC play with music.
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     ^ A Clockwork Orange - The Stage Plays/A Play with Music/2004/BBC/Local & Intl Theatres .
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     ^ Title Music From "A Clockwork Orange" (02:21) From Purcell's "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" .
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     Century Hutchinson Ltd. (1987). An extract is quoted on several web sites:[17] ,[18][19] .
  • Burgess, Anthony (1978). Clockwork Oranges. In 1985. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-136080-3 (extracts quoted here)
  • Vidal, Gore. ."Why I Am Eight Years Younger Than Anthony Burgess", in At Home: Essays, 1982-1988, p. 411. New York: Random House, 1988. ISBN 0-394-57020-0.
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1974).^ Oxford Student UK 1/20/06 This production clears the stage for a new, stylistically innovative interpretation of Anthony Burgess's novel.
    • A Clockwork Orange - The Stage Plays/A Play with Music/2004/BBC/Local & Intl Theatres 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC malcolmtribute.hostrator.com [Source type: General]

     The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 72. ISBN 0-911682-20-1. 
  1. ^ Burgess, Anthony (1986) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in A Clockwork Orange, W. W. Norton & Company, New York.
  2. ^ The Kubrick Site: Kubrick's comments regarding 'A Clockwork Orange'
  3. ^ Hart, Gail Kathleen. Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetics and the Poetics of Punishment. University of Delaware Press. 2005. Online. Google Books. June 19, 2008.
  4. ^ AFP (2007-10-29). "Gruesome 'Saw 4' slashes through North American box-office". http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gKh4MPBUr7_ZFvg7tyPFe1IXCAXw. Retrieved 2008-01-15. 
  5. ^ "Q&A With 'Hostel' Director Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino - New York Magazine". http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/15436/. Retrieved 2008-01-15. 
  6. ^ "ADV Announces New Gantz Collection, Final Guyver & More: Nov 6 Releases". http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2007-09-06/adv-announces-new-gantz-collection-final-guyver-and-more-nov-6-releases. Retrieved 2008-01-15. 
  7. ^ CBS News. ""Manhunt 2": Most Violent Game Yet?, Critics Say New Video Game Is Too Realistic; Players Must Torture, Kill - CBS News". http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/30/eveningnews/eyeontech/main3433101.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-15. 
  8. ^ Libertarian Futurist Society
  9. ^ "The Complete List | TIME Magazine — ALL-TIME 100 Novels". TIME Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html. Retrieved 2007-08-20. 
  10. ^ Mirateca Arts Management
  11. ^ Brad Mays
  12. ^ Ark Theatre
  13. ^ The 25th Annual LA Weekly Theater Award Nominees (page 1)
  14. ^ Brad Mays (image)
  15. ^ Brad Mays Gallery: A Clockwork Orange
  16. ^ Brad Mays Reviews
  17. ^ Anthony Burgess from A Clockwork Orange: A play with music (Century Hutchinson Ltd, 1987)
  18. ^ a clockwork testament - anthony burgess on 'a clockwork orange' - page 2
  19. ^ A Clockwork Orange - From A Clockwork Orange: A Play With Music

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Contents

Alex

  • "What's it going to be then, eh?" .
    • Source: Part 3, Chapter 01, sentence 01
  • "Come with uncle," I said, "and hear all proper.^ Come with Uncle and hear all proper.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Come with uncle and hear all proper.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. .You are invited."
  • There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
  • Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.^ We were sitting in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.
    • The Kubrick Site: Burgesses' 'Clockwork': Chapter 21 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.visual-memory.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You couldn’t make it up!
    • Danish Women as Tourist Attractions » Sociological Images 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC contexts.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ ALEX Hi, hi, hi, there ALL THREE Well, hello.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     .To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
  • Lets make things nice and sparkling clear.^ ALEX To what do I owe this extreme pleasure, sir?
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ALEX Lets get things nice and sparkling clear.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Alex : Let's get things nice and sparkling clear.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .This sarcasm - if I may call it such, is very unbecoming of you oh my brothers
  • You try to frighten me.^ You trying to call me a liar?
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This sarcasm, if I may call it such, does not become you, O my brothers.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You viddy oh my brothers?
    • A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     Admit so, sir. .This is some new form of torture.^ This is some new form of torture.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Say it, Brother Sir.
  • "The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking.^ The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He and his droogs visit Korova's Milk Bar, and drink a bit of their drug of choice, drencrem, the more to enjoy a little of the old ultra violent.

     .This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence."
  • "Oh bliss!^ You couldn’t make it up!
    • Danish Women as Tourist Attractions » Sociological Images 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC contexts.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ EM Would you like me to make you a nice cup of tea, son?
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     Bliss and heaven! .Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh.^ Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ O bliss, bliss and heaven, oh it was gorgeousness and georgeosity made flesh.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And oh my brothers, when that day finally arrived, when I sat in front of that cinema screen and watched Kubrick's masterpiece unfolding in front of me, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh.
    • A Clockwork Orange@Everything2.com 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC everything2.com [Source type: Original source]

     .It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.^ It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
    • A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     .As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"^ As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ As I sloosied [listened], my glazzies [eyes] tight shut to shut in the bliss that was better than any synthetic Bog [god] or God, I knew such lovely pictures.

     .(This was said while listening to a violin concerto by Geoffrey Plautus, played by Odysseus Choerilos)
  • "Initiative comes to thems that wait."
  • "What we were after now was the old surprise visit.^ Initiative comes to thems that wait.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ What we were after now was the old surprise visit.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ When the moon climbs to its zenith, they get an ache for "the old surprise visit"(Burgess, Orange 24).

     .That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence."
  • You needn't take it any further, sir.^ ALEX You needn't take it any further, sir.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ That was a real kick, and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultra-violence.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It is a very good movie, that really gets to you.
    • a clockwork orange 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC cool.coa.gatech.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong.^ You've proved to me that all this ultra-violence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Don't get me wrong though, the movie wasn't all that bad - there were good and sometimes funny parts and plenty of naked girls in the beginning for you guys.
    • a clockwork orange 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC cool.coa.gatech.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ I mean, your average flick, you've got the heroes and the villians and a happy ending, but this all gets a bit boring eventually.
    • "A Clockwork Orange" | The Cult 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC chuckpalahniuk.net [Source type: General]

     .I've learned me lesson, sir.^ I've learned my lesson, sir.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .I've seen now what I've never seen before.^ I've never seen you before.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I see now what I've never seen before.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I see now what I've never seen before I'm cured, praise Bog!
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     I'm cured! Praise Bog! .I'm cured!
  • "It’s funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
  • "Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world.^ Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ALEX (V.O.) Suddenly I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do and that was to do myself in, to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked cruel world.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     .One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever."
  • "Well, well, well, well.^ One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep for ever, and ever and ever.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison.^ Well, if it isn't stinking Billygoat Billyboy in poison.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison!
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .How art thou, thy globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil?^ How are thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil?
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil?
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil?
    • A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     .Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou."
  • "Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name -A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title.^ One on the turnip coming up for you.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Do we become, as the title suggests, A Clockwork Orange?
    • The Kubrick Site: Kubrick's comments regarding 'A Clockwork Orange' 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.visual-memory.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?'

Minister of the Interior

  • "There was a man. . .a writer of subversive literature."
    • .
  • “Padre, these are subtleties.^ Minister : Padre, these are subtleties!
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .We’re not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics.^ We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .We are concerned only with cutting down crime--and.^ We are concerned only with cutting down crime.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     . .with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. .He will be your true Christian: ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the very heart at the thought even of killing a fly!^ He will be your true Christian, ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the very heart at the thought even of killing a fly.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Sick to the very heart at the thought even of killing a fly.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     Reclamation! .Joy before the angels of God!^ Reclamation, joy before the angels of God.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     The point is that it works.”
  • "Excellent. .He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious.^ He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     He'll do...He's perfect. .I want his records sent to me.^ I want his records sent to me.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition."
  • "We are all going to die.^ This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We were assaulted by a gang of vicious young hoodlums in this house, in this very room you are sitting in now.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ CONTRIBUTE. If you just post something like "I'm liking the book so far" and that's all, you're going to get a Time Out.
    • Book Club: June - A Clockwork Orange - The Explosm Fora 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC forums.explosm.net [Source type: General]

     its only a matter of time."

Mr. Alexander

.
  • “The common people will let it go.^ The common people will let it go!
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The common people will let it go.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .Oh yes, they’ll sell liberty for a quieter life.^ Oh, yes they will sell liberty for a quieter life.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Oh yes, they did.
    • Danish Women as Tourist Attractions » Sociological Images 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC contexts.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ They will sell liberty for a quieter life - that is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!!
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .That is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!”
  • "The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen."^ That is why they must be led, sir, driven...
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They will sell liberty for a quieter life - that is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!!
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ MR. ALEXANDER I tell you, sir, they have turned this young man into something other than a human being.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Source: Part 1, Chapter 02, sentence 23

P.R. Deltoid

.
  • I've just come from the hospital; your victim has died.
  • It'll be your own torture.^ Your victim has died.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ DELTOID It will be your own torture.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ DELTOID I've just come back from the hospital.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     .I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
  • “We study the problem.^ I hope to God it will torture you to madness.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .We’ve been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies.^ We've been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .You’ve got a good home here, good loving parents.^ You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You're back to make a life of misery for your lovely parents, is that it?
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ DOCTOR Good morning, we've been expecting you.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     .You’ve got not too bad of a brain!^ You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?”

Prison Chaplain

  • "What's it going to be then, eh?" .
    • Source: Part 2, Chapter 01, sentence 01
  • "A lot of idiots you are, selling your own birthright for a saucer of cold porridge!^ A lot of idiots you are, selling your birthright for a saucer of cold porridge, the thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ A lot of Idiots you are, selling your birthright for a saucer of cold porridge.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Your sentence only makes sense in combination with this video as “Casual sex is a lovely and legitimate part of travel”, since no romance is featured here.
    • Danish Women as Tourist Attractions » Sociological Images 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC contexts.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     The thrill of theft! Of violence! .The urge to live easy!^ A lot of idiots you are, selling your birthright for a saucer of cold porridge, the thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .Well, I ask you what is it worth when we have undeniable truth, yes, incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists."
  • "Don't you laugh, damn you, don't you laugh!"
  • "When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
  • "Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?^ When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • Other Critical Essays 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC clockwork101.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ What does God want?
    • A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]
    • Other Critical Essays 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC clockwork101.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "A man who cannot choose ceases to be man."
    • A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     .Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"^ "A man who cannot choose ceases to be man."
    • A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Of whether it is better to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good.
    • A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ His message is that it is better to have the choice to do bad than to be forced to do good.
    • Source: Part 2, Chapter xx, sentence xx
  • “Choice. .The boy has no real choice, has he?^ The boy has no real choice, has he?
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement.^ Self interest, fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self abasement.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement.
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ On the other hand, his conditioning, based on physical pain, did stop him from performing acts of violence.

     .Its insincerity was clearly to be seen.^ Its insincerity was clearly to be seen.
    • A Clockwork Orange Script 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC www.indelibleinc.com [Source type: Original source]
    • A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 10:40 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.”

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A Clockwork Orange  
Author Anthony Burgess
Country United Kingdom
Language English, Nadsat
Genre(s) Science fiction novel, Satire
Publisher William Heinemann (UK)
Make date 1962
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audio Book (Cassette, CD)
Pages 192 pages (Hardback edition) &
176 pages (Paperback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-434-09800-0 (Hardback edition) &
ISBN 0-14-118260-1 (Paperback edition UK)

A Clockwork Orange is a violent 1962 science fiction book by Anthony Burgess about the bitter future when mankind is recovering from the Post Apocalyptic event which was used by Stanley Kubrick for a 1971 movie. In both the movie and book they spoke English and a dialect of Russian called Nadsat.

Awards

  • 1983 - Prometheus Award (Preliminary Nominee)
  • 1999 - Prometheus Award (Nomination)
  • 2002 - Prometheus Award (Nomination)
  • 2003 - Prometheus Award (Nomination)
  • 2006 - Prometheus Award (Nomination)
  • 2008 - Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award)
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