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Essay Archive - A Clockwork Orange: Violence and Corruption
A Clockwork Orange: Violence and Corruption
Alex, the fifteen year old narrator of Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork
Orange, lives in a society where violence reigns. This novel has a very direct
nature, and is often blunt to the point of offense, but this makes it more
powerful and helps to further its point. This point is that everyone is out for
themselves, whether they be the police, government or citizens of this society.
In this book, the police can be just as violent as Alex and his droogs,
or gang. In fact, by the end of the novel, his droogs have themselves become
the police. The police have no qualms ....
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