the extravagance of society in the roaring twenties. In contrast‚ Burgess’s novel‚ ‘A Clockwork Orange’‚ depicts a futuristic society in which the novelist fears about mankind’s capacity for corruption are explored. In both novels‚ it is made quite clear from the introductions‚ that society is corrupt. The corruption of society is introduced more subtly in ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ compared to ‘A Clockwork Orange’. It is introduced through Nick Carraway in ‘The Great Gatsby’ in his description of the
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A Clockwork Orange: The Feelingless and Affectless Man‚ Living In a Mechanical Society In today’s society the value of one’s being has been abused. No longer do we foster the idea of nurturing our young‚ rather society has become detached from showing and sharing emotion. Becoming a society focused on technology‚ people have become merely objects of a mechanical society. Technology has reached an era of denaturing human nature; technology has made society lazy by making everything substitutable
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Occupy A Clockwork Orange: Meaningful Violence in A Clockwork Orange Violence is unavoidable in our society. It hits us from every direction‚ you can’t watch TV for more than an hour without seeing some sort of violence nor can you listen to the radio without hearing of violent acts. However‚ George Gerbner asserts that seeing all of the violence is not necessarily detrimental to our minds. To Gerbner violence that‚ “Individually crafted‚ historically inspired‚ sparingly and selectively used
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Title Page A REFUTATION OF ROBERT D. KAPLAN’S THESIS‚ AS PROPOSED IN THE 1994 ARTICLE “THE COMING ANARCHY‚” USING THE ARGUMENT THAT HIS EXTRAPOLATIONS OF THE EVENTS IN WEST AFRICA BEING AN INDICATOR OF THE FUTURE STATE OF THE WORLD ARE ERRONEOUS A Thesis Submitted to the American Graduate School Of International Relations and Diplomacy In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts By Omar Bandar‚ A.A.‚ B.S. __________ Douglas A. Yates‚ Advisor
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A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive‚ totalitarian super-state. In this society‚ ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency‚ blind to the insidious growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang‚ which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals through the streets‚ robbing and beating men and
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Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy Culture and Anarchy is a controversial philosophical work written by the celebrated Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold. Composed during a time of unprecedented social and political change‚ the essay argues for a restructuring of England’s social ideology. It reflects Arnold’s passionate conviction that the uneducated English masses could be molded into conscientious individuals who strive for human perfection through the harmonious cultivation of all of their skills
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology David Graeber PRICKLY PARADIGM PRESS CHICAGO 1 Anarchism: The name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government—harmony in such a society being obtained‚ not by submission to law‚ or by obedience to any authority‚ but by free agreements concluded between the various groups‚ territorial and professional‚ freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption‚ as also for the satisfaction
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Compare the society that Orwell creates in 1984 with the one that Burgess creates in ‘A Clockwork orange’ Link your observations to the two writers‚ their contexts and their views on their own society. The two novels that these writers are famous for link together in many ways. Despite the different time periods and views in which the writers effectively portray they share the key idea of a dystopian society. In this essay I will attempt to explore the differences as well as the similarities
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A Clockwork Orange "Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free." -Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess has been heralded as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Although Burgess has over thirty works of published literature‚ his most famous is A Clockwork Orange. Burgess’s novel is a futuristic look at a Totalitarian government. The main character‚ Alex‚ is an "ultra-violent" thief who has no problem using force against innocent citizens
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become apathetic. When individualism deteriorates into “general apathy‚” Tocqueville claims that “anarchy and despotism” will follow (Tocqueville 704). In these two possible dystopian democracies‚ either tyranny of the majority or tyranny of the executive power reigns. Both the executive and the majority are “in a position to oppress” when apathy conquers the populace (Tocqueville 704). Furthermore‚ anarchy and despotism seem to combine in this dystopian democracy‚ also as a consequence of general apathy
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