Tag Archives: Clockwork Orange

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →