A Clockwork Orange
Setting
England 1963
Figurative Lagnuage
Characters
Symbolic Stuff
Georgie
Dim
Pete
Alex
Main character - narrator (protagonist)
nasty, doesn't clean up too good
The nicest one
Everywhere
15 years old - starting out
not too bright, big, tough
Burgess believed there was no point in writing a novel unless there is moral transformation or increase in wisdom
eventually grows bored of violence & prefers creation rather than destruction
If a man can only perform good or evil then he is a clockwork orange - this means that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color & juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the devil
There were 21 chapters (3 sections each) It can be symbol for maturity & assumed adult responsibility
F. Alexander
wife dies bc of the gang
Uses many old English slang words such as droogs, poogly, old moloko, viddy, malenky
Theme
People are free to choose what they want to do at will, but when it disrupts order in society actions must cease
Dialogue
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P. R. Deltoid
Alex's post corrective advisor