A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ... The new American edition of the novel A Clockwork Orange features a final chapter that was omitted from the original American edition against the author's preference. ...

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A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ... The new American edition of the novel A Clockwork Orange features a final chapter that was omitted from the original American edition against the author's preference. ...

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Violence is the universal element in A Clockwork Orange. ... There is not just one function of violence in our lives, just as there is more than one function of violence in A Clockwork Orange. ... Clearly A Clockwork Orange, in comparison to violence of the present day, may be seen as harsh. ... Everything that happens in A Clockwork Orange happens everyday in our society. ... That is what A Clockwork Orange does and why it is perceived as so violent. ...

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- the opening line of Anthony Burgess" A Clockwork Orange, being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven. ... Burgess skilfully introduces us to his futuristic slang, or nadsat, making A Clockwork Orange valuable not only for the questions it raises, but also for its creative and experimental use of the English language in which we see hints of Russian. ... But perhaps the most interesting thing about the film is that its ending is different to that of the book: chapter 21 is left out. ... This has much to do with Americans (Kubrick bein...

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"A Clockwork Orange stands as a great literary work, yet most copies weigh in in less then three hundred pages. ... With over sixty works of published literature under his belt, his most popular being, A Clockwork Orange, he has lived up to any challenge brought upon him. ... These include The Doctor Is Sick, The Wanting Seed, A Clockwork Orange, Honey for the Bears, and Nothing Like the Sun. ... In 1971 his notoriety grew in America with the release of the movie version of A Clockwork Orange. ... A Clockwork Orange had a very small list of characters. ...

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When exploring this view in relation to the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and the film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick it is apparent that morality and ethics are certainly a central concern of post-war thinking about culture and society. ... A Clockwork Orange was originally written and published in Britain with twenty-one chapters, when it was released in America the publishers omitted the last chapter and subsequently so did Kubrick when he made the film version. ... With the loss of the authenticity of some of the violence in A Clockwork Orange the readers/viewers moral stance ...

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The book "A Clock Orange", tells the story of a cruel adolescent of the near future and how he is reformed of his sadistic nature by a special conditioning treatment. ... At this point in the novel Burgess tells the reader that Alex has become "A Clockwork Orange", "that if one can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or the Almighty State". ... In the final chapter Alex fully matures of his evil and decides to ...

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A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange, a breakthrough novel by Anthony Burgess, seems to be a story about a horrific reality where evil rules the streets, when in actuality it is a story between the give and take of freedom and control. ... (Nelson 136) In 1971 a clockwork orange was turned into a movie. ... It opened up a new chapter of what was acceptable on the big screen. ... This whole genre was opened up because of films like a clockwork orange. ... The last chapter was removed from the American version because the publ...

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In Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's best known work, A Clockwork Orange, the perception of the protagonist was drastically altered. ... Gehrke points out in his text Deviant Subjects in Foucault and A Clockwork Orange, the missing of the original ending in the film has accidental reasons: "When Burgess originally wrote the book it was twenty-one chapters long and ended with Alex escaping the effects of behavior modification, outgrowing his lust for violence, and yearning for peace, a wife, and a baby. Editors persuaded Burgess to cut the last chapter of the...

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"A Clockwork Orange: Book and Film Comparative Analysis" In 1962, Anthony Burgess' novel "A Clockwork Orange" was published for the first time. ... In 1971, director Stanley Kubrick turned Burgess' book into an even more erotically violent film, "Clockwork Orange". ... Burgess' original manuscript had twenty-one chapters. The twenty-first chapter was a resolution; after overcoming his conditioning in the previous chapter, Alex grows bored with violence and considers giving up his violent ways for marriage and a family. ... Burgess' New York publishers had insisted that t...

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A Clockwork Orange Response Paper The book "A Clockwork Orange," is a brilliant book in itself. ... Burgess really expresses his feelings in chapter 7 part II, when Alex is in a demonstration of how he is "cured." ...

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A Clockwork Orange stands as a great literary work, yet most copies weigh in at less than three hundred pages. Written by Anthony Burgess, it spans twenty one chapters and serves as a cult classic to this day. ... The novella is split among three books, each of seven chapters. ... But there is a last chapter that was left out of the movie and the earlier American printings in which Alex is hanging out with new hoodlums after being cured, but realizes that something is missing. ...

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With the inclusion of Chapter 21 A Clockwork Orange becomes the bildungsroman Burgess intended. ... Their next victim is a writer the second Alexander, or his later self for that matter, in the novel, he is writing a novel called "A Clockwork Orange-. ...

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With the inclusion of Chapter 21 A Clockwork Orange becomes the bildungsroman Burgess intended. ... Their next victim is a writer the second Alexander, or his later self for that matter, in the novel, he is writing a novel called "A Clockwork Orange-. ...

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With the inclusion of Chapter 21 A Clockwork Orange becomes the bildungsroman Burgess intended. ... Their next victim is a writer the second Alexander, or his later self for that matter, in the novel, he is writing a novel called "A Clockwork Orange-. ...

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With the inclusion of Chapter 21 A Clockwork Orange becomes the bildungsroman Burgess intended. ... Their next victim is a writer the second Alexander, or his later self for that matter, in the novel, he is writing a novel called "A Clockwork Orange-. ...

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Before beginning to explore this topic, it is vital to have clear definitions of what both utopia and dystopia are. Unfortunately, it is difficult to pin down exact definitions of these two words. Thomas More, in his 1518 book Utopia, originally conceived the term, although not the actual concept - many philosophers would say that the concept of utopia is something inherent to the human psyche. The idea of utopia, even in literature, is far older than More's romance; it appears in the Timaeus of Plato and is fully developed in his Republic. The idealized description of Sparta in Plutar...

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BAPTISED WITH AN UNHOLY SPIRIT The Exercise of Mind-Control Techniques in the Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements by Paul Thompson In other papers on this website (on Healing and Visualisation), we have examined the magical use of the spoken word as an outworking of occult word-power in order to effect change in one's environment. We now turn to the use of verbal suggestion as a powerful method of effecting change in others " a form of Shamanism which has become astonishingly widespread throughout the Christian Church. As Charismatic teachings have become increasingly p...

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