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Morality In 'The Clockwork Orange'
It was whilst reading The Clockwork Orange that I met a protagonist who as unapologetically evil and I was fascinated, it led me to discover more literature that dealt with the darker side of human existence; literature that explored the transgressive and subversive. My curiosity for the morbid and dark only grew through my reading of novels like American Psycho, Frankenstein, Naked Lunch and Lolita; novels which tried to describe something wholly alien yet contain something I found familiar. Unlike works such as Dante’s Inferno these works seemed to present the immoral without such didacticism which left a moral ambiguity I found intriguing.

I have always been interested in the notion of disunity between the reader and author that could
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