A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho are both used as texts by their authors to satirically comment on their different societies‚ Burgess writing as a warning of the chaos the social revolution of the 1950’s and ‘60s might bring‚ while Ellis is commenting on the commercialism of the incredibly capitalist 1980’s‚ and how humanism has almost been abandoned because of this. Both Burgess and Ellis’s satirical commentary of their societies is evident through the characters of their violent psychotic
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behaviour that might be seen to romanticise or condone violence. For example‚ we must also be careful to acknowledge the important distinction between books which romanticise violence generally‚ and books which incite terrorism. Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (and the powerful movie by the same name produced by Stanley Kubrick) would qualify as media which arguably promoted violence; especially to those who did not understand the underlying messages of the author and filmmaker. Instead of people being
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chaos and anarchy onto society where as a democratic leader uses‚ order‚ authority and justice in order to maintain civilization lord of the flies was memorable because it addressed an ongoing the on going global tension Between democracy and dictatorship. And that is why this idea was so memorable it teaches us that dictatorships do exist and that in some countries such as syria and libya dictator rules are exercised on a repetitive basis. In the begininngijeje of the novel the orange and potoe
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Genre: Close Study of Dystopian Genre The dystopic novel evinces a strong theme common in much science fiction and fantasy fiction‚ the creation of a future time (usually)‚ when the conditions of human life are exaggeratedly bad due to deprivation‚ oppression or terror. This created society or ‘dystopia’ frequently constructs apocalyptic views of a future using crime‚ immorality or corrupt government to create or sustain the bad quality of people’s lives‚ often conditioning the masses to believe
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Dick Dale Dick Dale is an American surf rock guitarist born to Lebanese parents. Dale was born in Boston‚ but he and his family moved to Orange County‚ California‚ where he learned to surf and became very interested in music. With this important factor of surfing‚ he became known as “The King of the Surf Guitar.” In addition‚ his Lebanese heritage also had a very important influence in his music. He had a strong interest in Arabic music‚ which greatly influenced his development of surf rock music
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Analyse the passage (John the Savage in the hospital); discern presentation of satire and how it is wrought. In Brave New World Huxley is targeting consumer‚ materialistic attitudes that existed in his time (and still do today) and extrapolating‚ then projecting them into the world that is the World State‚ to serve as a warning to society of the consequences of these attitudes. The passage in question is from Chapter XIV of Huxley’s Brave New World‚ and more specifically features the incident
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Science Fiction: the Vessel for Fatalism Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut creates an environment shaped by elements of science fiction. These elements‚ notably time travel and alien contact‚ make the novel "a science fiction that deals with the topic of free will versus fatalism‚" (Isaacs 408). Throughout the novel Billy remains "unstuck in time‚" seeing his whole life flash before his eyes in a random order of events (Vonnegut 15). This random order forces the reader to examine the
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take a multifaceted look at madness. We will start the year through the lense of popular culture by analyzing specific characters in widely viewed films. These will include the classic movies Psycho (1960) and the character Norman Bates‚ A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Alex‚ The Shining (1980) and Jack Torrence‚ Silence of the Lambs (1990) and Hannibal Lector‚ Fight Club (1999) and The Narrator‚ and The Dark Knight (2008) and The Joker. Through these films we will gain an understanding of madness
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decided to take up writing‚ took the pen name Harper Lee and then created this book. After that‚ the years went by and my book collection grew. The shelves bared the heavy loads of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury‚ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess‚ Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee‚ also known as the sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird‚ and my personal favorite‚ Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. After reading Catcher last year in English‚ my mind had flipped yet another
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Wide Reading Book Suggestions Alexie‚ Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 2007. Talented Arnold Spirit leaves the reservation school to go to an academically superior one located many miles away. How he copes with this change‚ both at school and on the reservation‚ is realistic‚ thought-provoking‚ and laugh-out-loud funny. National Book Award Young People’s Literature 2007; Book Sense Book of the Year 2008 Crutcher‚ Chris. Deadline. 2007. Eighteen-year-old Ben Wolf has
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