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A Clockwork Orange

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Anthony Burgess
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
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 ISBN 0-434-09800-0 (Hardback edition) &
ISBN 0-14-118260-1 (Paperback edition UK)

A Clockwork Orange is a speculative fiction novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962, and was later the basis for a 1971 film adaptation of the same name by Stanley Kubrick. Anthony Burgess (February 25 1917 — November 22 1993 was an English Novelist, Critic, Composer, Librettist, Poet The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890 A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a Magnetic tape sound A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio Speculative fiction is a term used as an inclusive descriptor covering a group of Fiction Genres that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real world in A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Anthony Burgess (February 25 1917 — November 22 1993 was an English Novelist, Critic, Composer, Librettist, Poet A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 Satirical Science fiction Film adaptation of a 1962 novel of the same name, by Anthony

The novel was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and [1]

Contents

Plot introduction

Explanation of the novel's title

Anthony Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an alleged old Cockney expression "as queer as a clockwork orange". The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations A clockwork is the inner workings of either a mechanical Clock or a device that operates in a similar fashion An orange —specifically the sweet orange —is the Citrus fruit Citrus sinensis ( syn 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"). The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet official in charge of managing the various British Colonies. For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and A pun (or paronomasia) is a Phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding Words for humorous or Rhetorical The Malay language ( ISO 639-1 code MS is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people and people of other ethnic groups who reside in the

Burgess wrote in his later (Nov. 1986) introduction, 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 color and juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty state. God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. The Devil is the "

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". For other uses see Pavlov (disambiguation. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов September 14, 1849 &ndash February This title alludes to the protagonist's positively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will. The question of free will

Point of view from one person

A Clockwork Orange is written in first person perspective from a seemingly biased and unreliable source. See also First person First-person narrative is a Narrative mode in which a Story is narrated by one character, who explicitly Alex never justifies his actions in the narration, giving a good sense that he is somewhat sincere; a narrator who, as unlikeable as he may attempt to seem, evokes pity from the reader through the telling of his unending suffering, and later through his realization that the cycle will never end. 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. He uses words that are common in speech, as well as Nadsat, the speech of particular younger generation subcultures. Nadsat is a constructed Language used by the teenage subculture also called Nadsat in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange

Plot summary

Part 1: Alex's world

Set in a dystopian near future, the novel opens with the introduction of protagonist, fifteen-year-old Alex, who, with his gang members (known as "droogs") Pete, Georgie and Dim, roam the streets at night, committing violent crimes ("ultraviolence") for enjoyment.

Essentially, the first part of the novel is a character study of the protagonist. We learn that Alex and his "droogs" (Russian for friends) have their own language known as Nadsat, and their own hierarchy, in which Alex is the leader. Nadsat is a constructed Language used by the teenage subculture also called Nadsat in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange There is a general disregard for the law and for older generations—creating an image of a youth movement that is taking control of this fictional future. (This of course being the exaggeration of the concern that came with the changing values of the 1960s, in which teenagers were becoming decidedly more unruly and rebellious. )

Part 1 involves Alex reflecting on his illegal activity (such as beating strangers, inciting gang fights, the seduction of two 10-year-old girls, and the rape of the wife of writer F. Alexander). It describes the treachery of his droogs, resulting in Alex's capture and prison sentence for the unintentional murder of an old woman.

The use of lyrical language and Nadsat somewhat masks the horrible imagery of Alex's actions, and, to some extent, Alex is able to draw empathy from the reader, through his friendly nature towards his audience (referring to them as his "only friends," and to himself as "Your Humble Narrator," etc. ).

Part 2: The Ludovico Technique

After being caught for his crimes Alex is sentenced to 14 years for murder. Alex gets a job as an assistant to the prison chaplain. A chaplain is typically a Priest, Pastor, ordained Deacon, Rabbi, Imam or other member of the Clergy serving a group of 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", imagining himself taking part in "the nailing-in" (the Crucifixion) of Jesus. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin Crucifixion (from Latin crucifixio, noun of process crucifixio, from perfect passive participle crucifixus, fixed to a cross from Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Alex 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 will not commit crimes afterwards. This article refers to the psychological conditioning technique from A Clockwork Orange.

Partially by taking part in the fatal beating of a cellmate, Alex manages to become the subject in the first full-scale trial of the Ludovico Technique. The technique itself is a Pavlov-style 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, one of the films has a soundtrack of Alex's beloved Beethoven (last movement of the 9th symphony), and though he pleads with them to remove the music, they refuse, saying that it is for his own good and that the music may be the "punishment element". Aversion therapy is a form of psychiatric, Mental health or psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously Nausea ( Latin: Nausea, Greek:, " Sea-sickness " also called wamble) is the sensation of unease and discomfort Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist.

A few weeks later, the clinicians conduct an experiment in front of an audience (including the prison chaplain) in which a man begins to taunt and hurt Alex, with Alex unable to defend himself, for each time he tries he feels extremely sick and nauseous. Eventually Alex resorts to licking the man's boots to appease him. They then bring in a beautiful, naked woman, and Alex is unable to think of touching her without feeling ill. They thus demonstrate that the treatment has been effective.

Part 3: After prison

The third part of the novel concentrates mostly on the following punishment to which Alex is subjected after his treatment. Alex encounters many of his former victims, all of whom seek revenge upon him. He finds himself powerless to defend himself against them, due to feelings of sickness and fear of death, as a reaction to the violence. He finds that his parents have replaced him with a lodger in his own home, and wanders into the public library, only to be attacked by an aging old man whom he had beaten up with his droogs in chapter one. The police are called by the librarian and when they arrive, he sees that the police are no other than his old 'droog' Dim, and arch-enemy Billy Boy. Taking advantage of their positions, they take Alex into a rural part of town to beat him up, and then leave him to his own devices. While looking for solace, Alex falls into the hands of F. Alexander, the husband of the woman he raped at the beginning of part one. Friends of the writer intend to use Alex as a weapon against the political party, exposing the terrible things that have been done to him. Although it is not clear whether the friends of F. Alexander intend it, their playing of a symphony by the fictional composer Otto Skadelig next door to Alex's locked room drives him to throw himself out of a window instead of enduring the sickness of the treatment's conditioning. Alex's suicide attempt fails, and leads to his being cured, after the bad publicity for the political party that follows.

Touching on themes of the power struggles between old and young generations, the corruption of the police, and also politics, and attempted (but failed) suicide, the third section of the novel is the most reflective of the troubles of future society, mostly shown through the final chapter, where Alex reflects that he and his friends have either been killed (Georgie), fallen victim to the state (Dim's becoming a police officer) or outgrown their destructive behaviour (Pete). Alex finds that he no longer finds pleasure in "ultra-violence" and yearns for a wife and a child of his own. Alex knows that the generation after his will probably be just as destructive, and the one after that,". . . and nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And it would itty (go) on till the end of the world. . . " — perhaps revealing Burgess's ultimate deliberation on the unruly youth.

Characters

Alex—The novel's anti-hero and leader among his droogs. Alex often refers to himself as "Your Humble Narrator. " At the point of seducing two ten year old girls in a music shop, Alex reveals himself as "Alex The Large. " This was later the basis for Alex's surname DeLarge in the 1971 film. However, following the attempted suicide the newspapers state his name as 'Alex Burgess' very clearly.

George or Georgie—A droog of Alex's. Georgie attempts to undermine Alex's status as leader of the gang.

Pete—A droog of Alex's. The more rational, democratic and least violent of the gang.

Dim—A slow-witted droog of Alex's. He is the brute force of the gang.

P. R. Deltoid—A social worker assigned to Alex, who monitors his progress through reform schools.

The Prison Chaplain (also called the 'prison charlie,' a take on Charlie Chaplin) The character who first questions whether or not forced goodness is really better than chosen wickedness. The only character who is truly concerned about Alex's welfare; he is not taken seriously by Alex, though.

The Governor—The man who decides to let Alex "choose" to be the first reformed by the Ludovico Technique.

Dr. Brodsky—One of the co-founders of the Ludovico Technique. He at first seemed like a friend to Alex, and then introduced him to pain. Plays the "Bad Cop" role when talking to Alex before and after his sessions in the theater. Good cop/bad cop, known in British military circles as Mutt and Jeff (from an American newspaper comic strip of that name and also called joint questioning

Dr. Branom—The other Co-Founder of the Ludovico Technique. He says much less than Brodsky and is interpreted as the "Good Cop" role when addressing Alex.

F. Alexander—An author writing, at the beginning of the novel, his own novel called A Clockwork Orange. His wife is raped by Alex and his droogs, and subsequently dies. He later takes Alex in and subjects him to his extremist friends. Shortly after meeting it is possible that the droogs try to kill him using the weaknesses caused by the Ludovico Technique.

Differences in U. S. editions

Although the book is divided into three parts, each containing seven chapters (echoing a symphony's arrangement - Alex's love of classical music is a major plot point), the 21st chapter was omitted from the versions published in the United States until 1986. The film adaptation, which was directed by Stanley Kubrick, follows the American version of the book, ending prior to the events of the 21st chapter. Kubrick claimed that he had not read the original version until he had virtually finished the screenplay, but that he certainly never gave any serious consideration to using it.

Slang

The book, narrated by Alex, contains many words in a slang dialect which Burgess invented for the book, called Nadsat. Nadsat is a constructed Language used by the teenage subculture also called Nadsat in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange It is a mix of modified Slavic words, Polari, Cockney rhyming slang, derived Russian (like "baboochka"), and words invented by Burgess himself. The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages Polari (or alternatively Parlare, Parlary, Palare, Palarie, Palari, Parlyaree, from Italian parlare Rhyming slang is a form of Slang in which a word is replaced either by another word or phrase that rhymes with it or by the first word of such a phrase in which 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'; 'rooker' is 'hand', 'cal' is 'crap'; 'litso' is 'face'; and so on. One of Alex's doctors explains the language to a colleague as "Odd bits of old rhyming slang; a bit of gypsy talk, too. The Romani people (singular Rom, plural Roma as a Noun; also known as Romanies or Roma people) are an ethnic group with origins But most of the roots are Slav propaganda. Subliminal penetration. A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another medium designed to pass below the normal limits of the human Mind 's perception " 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 and 'cutter' means money.

In the first edition of the book, no key was provided, and the reader was left to extrapolate the meaning from the context.

Droogism refers to the portrayal of violence that is not utilitarian, i. e. violence for its own sake. Kidnapping a young salesman to demand ransom may be a crime, and violent, as well, but it does not qualify as droogism until the person kidnapped is tortured or killed, thereby becoming counter-productive to the reason the person was kidnapped in the first place.

Ultraviolence

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. Violence is the exertion of force so as to injure or abuse The word is used broadly to describe the destructive action of natural phenomena like Storms and Earthquakes A neologism (from Greek neo = "new" + logos = "word" is a word that although devised relatively recently in a specific time period has been " The term's association with aesthetic violence has led to its use in the media. The aestheticization of violence in high culture Art or Mass media is the depiction of or references to Violence in what Indiana University film studies [2][3][4][5]

Awards and nominations

Other adaptations

The best known adaptation of the novel to other forms is the 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick, but there have been others. The Prometheus Award is an award for Libertarian science fiction novels given out annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society which also publishes a quarterly journal A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 Satirical Science fiction Film adaptation of a 1962 novel of the same name, by Anthony The earlier 1965 film by Andy Warhol entitled Vinyl was an adaptation. For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song. Andrew Warhola (August 6 1928 &ndash February 22 1987 known as Andy Warhol Vinyl ( 1965) is a Black-and-white Experimental film directed by Andy Warhol at The Factory.

Excerpts from the first two chapters of the novel were dramatized and broadcast on BBC TV's programme Tonight, 1962 (now lost, believed wiped).

After Kubrick's film was released, Burgess wrote a Clockwork Orange stage play. In it, Dr. Branom defects from the psychiatric clinic when she grasps that the aversion treatment has destroyed Alex's ability to enjoy music. The play restores the novel's ending: Alex deciding to start a family. One of Alex's early victims, a bearded trumpeter who plays "Singin' in the Rain" at the Korova milkbar, is modeled on Stanley Kubrick.

In 1990, a second play, titled A Clockwork Orange 2004, was written for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company It makes no references to the film version, yet does away with the novel's ending. The performance was scored by Bono and The Edge of U2. David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, East London) more widely known by his Moniker The Edge, is a Musician known best [6] In 2001, UNI Theatre (Mississauga, Ontario) presented the Canadian premiere of the play under the direction of Terry Costa. http://mirateca.com/archives/archives/unitheatre19972001/default.aspx In 2002, Godlight Theatre Company presented the New York Premiere adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 'A Clockwork Orange' at Manhattan Theatre Source. The production went on to play at the SoHo Playhouse (2002), Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004), 59E59 Theaters (2005) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2005). 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 the "Hard-Core Convert" sequence of the 1995 film Tales from the Hood, a character undergoes a similar rehabilitation technique. Tales from the Hood is a 1995 horror anthology Film directed by Rusty Cundieff, and executive produced Tales from the Hood is a 1995 horror anthology Film directed by Rusty Cundieff, and executive produced

Release details

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References

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