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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Medium

Brian at Storytellers Unplugged recently watched the movie and his post gives his thoughts on the superiority in many ways of Burgess’ novel on which it is based.  This reminded me of my reading the book late last year and … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: – A Clockwork Orange – Having Fun

Somewhere between the last few pages of the novel and the desire to see the movie I was struck with the brilliant idea of putting together a presentation of sorts for our writers group to illustrate the changes story can … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – Special Effects

Have you noticed that you can take a picture of your kitchen or whatever room when it’s in particularly bad shape–in the middle of pie-baking with flour dust everywhere, or like my living room with the book stacks–and yet it … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – Details

Watched a bit more of the film, and immediately felt better about something that had bothered me in the book–nitpicky close reader that I am (or, if I missed it, inept close reader, blah, blah). When Alex is in the … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & NEW (?) MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – The Movie

Finally got a chance to viddy the first half of Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange this afternoon.  Real horrorshow stuff.  I’m finding that I really don’t remember seeing it, and I’m wondering if I was spaced out back in ’71 because … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – One More Thought on Structure

As is my method, after finishing Burgess’ novel I sought further insight via lit reviews online.  One thing (among several) I missed was the apparent significance of the musical arrangement style used in many of the phrasings and structure of … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – European Finale

Very strange that the American publisher should want to cut out this final chapter.  There is resolution here, and a good one wherein Alex grows weary of his ways and seeks a family and continuity of the life cycle of … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – The American Finale

From what I understand in an introduction by the author, Anthony Burgess, this novel ends at Chapter 20–at least for lily-livered 1961 America.  Without knowing what that edited out by the publisher last chapter (21) will bring, let me remark … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Government Control

So Alex has been sensitized to violence.  There is an ethical question here of course, as his total feedom of choice has been compromised permanently by the procedure he was subjected to at the prison. Alex does try to go … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Social Significance

I don’t believe that Burgess is giving us just the usual youth rebellion, but rather a social comment on a move towards violence through the freedoms granted within a civilized society.  Alex, the narrator and bad boy, has turned sly; … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – A Question of Human Nature and of Media

Very interesting section here; Alex is in prison and is going to be allowed out early under a new program of rehabilitation called the "Ludovico’s Technique."  Well Alex is of course all for it, oblivious to the warning signs of … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & REALITY?: A Clockwork Orange – Language

Sitting here, still plattied in my robe, slooshying to the von of the cars of the vecks ittying to rabbit in the factory.  My glazzies viddying the leaves, peeting coffee, a cancer in my rooker and my gulliver wondering what’s … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Voice and Language

Well I must admit, the language is starting to get to me. But there were the golosses of millicents telling them to shut it and you could even slooshy the zvook of like somebody being tolchocked real horrorshow and going … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Society

Interesting development, although not at all unexpected.  Alex is the natural leader of his small group of miscreants.  He attacked the weakest (minded) member of the group for making comments about a girl singing that Alex actually enjoyed listening to.  … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Theme

Burgess has presented an outrageous future world, and pushed us into it where we stumble about wondering, what the hell happened? There is a schism of wide proportion between the young generation of Alex’s contemporaries and the old, the starry … Continue reading Continue reading

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