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Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Oranges

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A clockwork orange focuses around whether the government believe that the class structure and the government running smoothly and properly are more important than an individual's right to exercise their free will whilst simultaneously showing fundamental issues of human nature and morality. Burgess was a practicing catholic which may have influenced his moral views and have a part to play in the portrayal of people being inherently inclined towards violence. Burgess was inspired to write A Clockwork Orange during a visit to Germany in 1961. There, he observed a state-regulated, repressive country filled with communism which turned out to be a fundamentally flawed system according to Burgess as he said it ‘shifts moral responsibility from the
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