biological parents as he was adopted. When he was 18 he joined the Marines and was shipped off to Vietnam. While there he was in charge of the men and controlled the radio. During the end of the war he was sprayed with a chemical called agent orange. Agent orange was used to kill trees so that the other group couldn’t hide in the trees. Unfortunately‚ my grandfather ended up getting sprayed which would
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Journal Entry #3 – A Clockwork Orange Burgess’ novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ carries many themes prevalent to the time-period of the novel’s release. In a futuristic city governed by a repressive totalitarian super-state‚ humans have become machines or lower animals. The main protagonist of the story‚ Alex‚ asserts his free will by deciding to live a life of debauchery and violence before being robbed of his free-will by the government. When A Clockwork Orange was written the war against Communism
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Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide used as a defoliant by the United Stated military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate the forest. A defoliant is a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants. The Vietnamese soldiers were using the forest as cover to attack the enemies. The military also sprayed a chemical mixture on the crops that were used to feed the Vietnamese army and population. The original problem that the U.S. military was trying to solve with the “Rainbow Chemicals”
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Examination of the Use of Language in "A Clockwork Orange" The created patch-work language of Nadsat in the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ satirizes the social classes and gang life of Anthony Burgess’s futuristic society. The most prominent of these tools being his use of a completely new language and the depiction of family life from the eyes of a fifteen year old English hoodlum. Burgess effectively broke arcane traditions when he wrote A Clockwork Orange by blending two forms of effective speech into
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Lewis and Burgess present their novels in different forms – Burgess writes A Clockwork Orange in bildungsroman‚ presented in retrospective first person narrative and continually displayed within Burgess’ choice of ‘unreliable narrator’ (The Rhetoric of Fiction‚ Wayne Booth‚ 1961)‚ which is used by Burgess to show Alex’s justification of his crimes‚ and therefore his inability to objectively narrate; whereas Lewis’ omniscient “salacious and blasphemous elements of his narrative” (Nick Groom‚ 2016)
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Brent Loth AP English November 10th Moral Ambiguity In the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess‚ we are introduced to a bizarre and atypical protagonist‚ Alex. This young delinquent displays incredible depravity and revels in his random violent actions. In all of his cruelty‚ he feels no guilt and seems completely uninterested in a moral explanation for his actions. As Alex narrates in disorienting language that is difficult to decipher‚ one finds themselves yearning to understand
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A Clockwork Orange Ramon Moses Globe University A Clockwork Orange A clockwork Orange is a very unique move that uses a lot of natural lighting throughout the movie. According to the book there are two sources of light‚ it can be natural or artificial. A Clockwork Orange uses a lot of natural lighting. While watching the making of the movie the audience may notice the use of reflector boards on some of the shots‚ even though natural lighting was used during the movie. Because of the
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In the novel/film “A Clockwork Orange” written/directed by Anthony Burgess/Stanley Kubrick‚ we are thrown into a futuristic dystopian world of England. In this world we are thrown into a society where a 15 year old boy named Alex narrates his life through this area. Alex‚ the Faustian protagonist of A Clockwork Orange‚ and a sadistic and depraved gang leader preys on the weak and innocent. Alex’s society/neighborhood consist of a lot of youth violence and corruption within the state. The film stays
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It is somewhat ironic to discover that the pharmacophore of phosphoramide drugs currently used as antitumor agents was originally utilized for the purpose of chemical warfare‚ most prominently so in World War I. Sulfur mustard‚ the precursor to phosphoramide drugs‚ was employed to great effect as a wounding agent in the characteristic trench warfare of WWI; Being a dense gas‚ sulfur mustard settled in trenches and created persistent environmental hazards for troops. Exposure to sulfur mustard‚
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ is a bildungsroman and dystopian novel about a teenager named Alex‚ a Beethoven-loving‚ head-bashing punk who leads his gang of “droogs” on “ultra-violent” assaults. In ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Burgess often uses language‚ form and structure to help the reader understand the bizarre‚ dystopian society in which it is set and the unique personality of Alex. Nadsat language often appears throughout the extract; we usually experience it through Alex or his droogs. We see the use of “vecks”
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