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A Clockwork Orange Semiotical Analysis

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Humanity Stripped Bare: Semiotical and Sartorial Sinning in A Clockwork Orange 's Nadsat Koshtoom Back in the non-permissive age, life was safe and secure, yet for many simultaneously desperately and appallingly dull. The rise of the late postwar generation in the 1960s fell together with rapid socioeconomic change, which led to an extravagant explosion of youth culture. This sudden surge of abundance contemporaneously questioned the framework of former rigidity, and gave birth to debates of existentialism, sexuality and violence. One novella that defies the edges of reason and convention, is Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange, a work in which the merely fifteen-year-old Alex attempts to seek out the limits of control in a frenzy of rape, murder and anti-establishment acts, all defined by the grotesque and the bizarre. Alex inebriates himself, beats, rapes and murders by the dozens (and Burgess ' makes sure to inject the necessary doze of T&A to keep even the light reader entertained), but essentially Alex ask himself the question many youths at the time (in every stratosphere of society) ultimately asked themselves: is this really all there is? In a culture of sudden abundance, adolescents coming off age struggle to find meaning in the existing order and coherence. In Systeme de la Mode, Barthes argues that fashion and style exceeds the realms of mere functionalism, and that, as a system of interpretation, can put emphasis by means of semiotic analysis in understanding social
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