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A paper which compares Orwell's 1984 and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, looking at themes such as free will, the nature of good and evil, social control and violence. Bibliography lists 2 sources
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reading, one might think that there are more differences than similarities between Orwells 1984 and Burgesss Clockwork Orange particularly in the style and structure of the two novels. However, despite
the different treatments, there are several themes which they have in common. The role of the individual in society, free will, social conditioning, the use of violence, peer pressure and
the distortion of sexuality as a means of social control and intimidation, to name but a few.
In some ways Burgesss text is more accessible to the reader, being written in the first person
and offering a fairly fast-paced account of the events of the narrative: however, his use of invented slang (so extensive a use that a glossary is required) ensures that the
reader is obliged to give careful consideration not only to the events which he is describing but also to the rationale behind the terms used in those descriptions. The term
"droog", for instance, is reminiscent of "droid", "dog", "droop" and so on - all indicative of mindlessness, or someone who slavishly follows a leader, as indeed the droogs follow Alex.
Burgess poses basic questions regarding the
nature of the individual, and the inherent good and evil in human beings. Whilst Alex retains his free will, he deliberately chooses evil; Burgess is implying that this is the
natural trend in human nature, and left to themselves without externally imposed social controls, humans will inevitably gravitate towards evil rather than towards good. It is only when Alex has
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