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A Clockwork Orange Dystopian Analysis

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In A Clockwork Orange, Burgess creates a dystopian future full of violence, chaos and destruction. In this dystopian novel, the author is writing in Nasdat, a foreign language, Burgess makes the reader feel like an outsider. As the novel begins, the reader does not have any attachment or emotions towards Alex. This all changes when Alex and his friends start to do horrendous acts of violence. The reader quickly begins to form hatred towards Alex. However, as the novel progresses the readers emotion towards Alex start to change. By the end of the novel the reader has an emotional attachment to Alex. Through the effective use of Alex’s narration Burgess manages to change the readers view.

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Knowing he is the leader of his group, Framed by his friends, Alex is arrested while they run away. Furthermore, he is beaten by the police, and sentenced to fourteen years of jail. Within 2 of the years that Alex has been sentenced the reader can already understand the difficulties that Alex lives though in there. Throughout the first part of the book, there is one sign that shows that Alex is not completely evil. Along with his abandonment from friends, it is the music that Burgess uses to help change the reader’s opinion on Alex, and eventually have a positive view on him. It is because of this music and the actions taken against him that one truly begins to feel sorry for Alex. The music that Alex chooses to listen is very ironic. While it causes him to do evil things, the fact remains that he listens to normal music, one of the first things he is not disliked for. His particular interest in classic music arises during one of his sessions while undergoing Ludivico’s Technique, a cruel fictional form of aversion therapy. Upon hearing what he perceives to be music from the heavens Alex says “But it’s not fair on the music” (55). It is during this same treatment that the reader really begins to feel sympathy towards him. Without the ability to choose from right and wrong, Alex is now a clockwork orange F. Alexander earlier told him about. “Am I to be just like a clockwork orange?” (60) Alex is all alone in the world, no longer able to perform cruel

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