between the voice and the audience is created. This profound level of optimism and hope can be seen in JFK’s Inaugural Address‚ and Jessie Street’s Is It to Be Back to the Kitchen? A relative distinctive voice is also significantly found in Anthony Burgess’ classic novel‚ A Clockwork Orange. The compelling speeches display a significant level of hope and optimism by creating a distinctive‚ reasoning and humble voice that addresses issues of inequality and racial conflict; and by outlining their intention
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Is America falling apart? Anthony Burgess “People are underpaid but they go through an act of liking their work‚ the open markets are luscious when esculent color‚ the community is more important than the stat‚ the human condition is humorously accepted.” (297) “The quality of life has nothing to do with the quantity of brand names. What matters is talk‚ family‚ cheap wine in the open air‚ the wresting of minimal sweetness out of the long-known bitterness of living.” (297) “American individualism
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revisited. How would you apply a Marxist approach to this novel? 8) Deconstructing meaning in Waiting for Godot. Who is Godot ? Why are they waiting for him? 9) A Clockwork Orange from a Marxist perspective. Which society is Burgess satirizing: the communist or the capitalist one? Why? 10) The question of identity in post-modern writings. Define post-modern identity as understood from one of the texts you have read (The Magus‚ Lord of the Flies‚ Waiting for Godot or
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Utopia can be defined as a place immune from inhumane treatment and absent of the hardships of society ‚ where the population is blindfolded from fear‚ anxiety‚ and general negative aspects of human nature. A utopia can be generalized as that perfect society. This is one type of a drastic society. There is another‚ more appalling type of society‚ that of a dystopia. A Dystopia is nor a fairyland or the promised-land like the utopia is‚ it looks at the chaos‚ anarchy‚ rebellion and disorder
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“There is a little Alex in all of us” In Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange one important question keeps popping up throughout the whole book. The question is does goodness exist in this novel? “Burgess novel is troubling and frustrating on a number of levels. He has presented us with a stark image of evil‚ and perhaps of a greater evil in attempting to counteract it” (Newman 68). I would have to say that no one in the novel is good. From beginning to end; page after page in one way or another
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two works. Text options from tenth-grade include: Animal Farm by George Orwell‚ Oedipus the King by Sophocles‚ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess‚ and Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Text options from ninth-grade include: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Spanning contentious themes of morality and psychology‚ Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange sparked polarizing reception among critics upon its 1941 release. The film‚ based on the novel by Anthony Burgess‚ follows the exuberant amoral acts of Alex‚ a thug in a dystopian city‚ until his gang betrays him to the authorities and‚ rather than be taught right from wrong‚ is brainwashed to detest sex and violence through inhumane techniques. While some critics‚ such as Vincent Canby of The New York Times
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raised to the dignity of particular exorcisms.” (Artaud‚ par. 8) While A Clockwork Orange may not share the same language of gestures‚ it is famous for its use of disorienting and unique language. The original author of the book‚ Anthony Burgess‚ invented a new dialect which is a mash up of English‚ Russian‚ Romany‚ Cockney rhyming slang and baby-talk for the protagonist to narrate in (McDonald‚ Cole‚ Webb‚ Faust and Wargula). This dialect‚ called Nadsat (which is
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A Clockwork Orange is an interpretation of a book by Anthony Burgess of the same name. Directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ the film A ClockWork Orange is an incredible film that talks about the morals of prison‚ free will‚ and political coercion. The main character of the film is a young man which by day is a high school student‚ and by night the leader of a gang that rapes and brutally assults inisant people. By night Alex DeLarge is exercising his free will as he does whatever he wants. But this asks
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shows how unstable society can sometimes be. As the novel progresses‚ the reader becomes aware of the division with in the upper and lower class and how people sometimes have to commit corrupt acts in order just to fit in. In contrast‚ Anthony Burgess introduces corruption in society in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ rather brutally from the very beginning. Alex‚ the narrator of the story and also the main character‚ tells the reader that there “pockets were full of deng” therefore there was no need “to
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