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