Glenn DW will state us something about the book so we will give you a short sum-up of the book, so I will give you some information about the writer. After that Glenn VH show us some differences between the book and the film. And for stoping we will demo you a fragment.

We are traveling to discourse the book and the film “ A Clockwork Orange ” .

The first thing we want to state, is that the book is really difficult to read. There are a batch of difficult words in it and Alex and his three friends speak a idiom, called “ nadsat ” . It ‘s the adolescent vocabulary of the hereafter. Glenn Vanhaeren besides read the book in Dutch and it was besides really hard to read harmonizing to him, even in Dutch. because they use a batch of words that cipher understands. In the Dutch version of the book is a list with all the accounts of these words, in the English version there is n’t. A few illustrations:

To viddy is to see

A droog is a friend

Short sum-up

A clockwork orange is a narrative about a immature adolescent named Alex populating in near-future England. Alex leads a little pack of teenage felons, Dim, Pete, and Georgie are the other members. They do things like robbing and crushing work forces and ravishing adult females. Alex and his friends spend a batch of their clip at the Korova Milkbar, that ‘s an constitution that serves milk laced with drugs, suchA milkA is called Milk-plus. Alex begins his narrative from the Milk saloon, where the male childs sit around imbibing. When Alex and his pack leave the saloon, they go on a offense. Their last offense was when they broke into an old adult female ‘s house. She calls the constabulary, and before Alex can acquire off, Dim hits him in the oculus with a concatenation and runs off with the others. The constabulary found Alex on the land and take him to their office, where he subsequently heard that the adult female he beat and raped during the earlier robbery has died. Now he ‘s became a liquidator.

Alex is sentenced to fourteen old ages in prison. He befriends the prison chaplain, who notices Alex ‘s involvement in the Bible. The chaplain lets Alex read in the chapel while listening to classical music, because Alex likes classical music. On one twenty-four hours Alex is selected as the first campaigner for an experimental intervention called Ludovico ‘s Technique, a signifier of brainwashing that incorporates associatory acquisition. After being injected with a substance that makes him awfully sick, the physicians force Alex to watch extremely violent films. In this manner, Alex comes to tie in force with the sickness and concerns he experiences from the shooting. The procedure takes two hebdomads to finish. After this procedure Alex can no longer bask classical music, which he has ever associated with force.

After two old ages in prison, Alex is released, a harmless human being incapable of barbarous Acts of the Apostless. Soon, nevertheless, Alex finds he ‘s non merely harmless but besides defenseless, as his earlier victims begin to take retaliation on him. His old friend Dim and an old enemy named Billyboy are both police officers now, and they take the chance to settle old tonss. They drive him to a field in the state, beat him, and leave him in the rain. When they leave himA Alex goes to a nearby bungalow and knocks on the door, imploring for aid. The adult male populating there lets him in and gives him nutrient and a room for the dark. Alex recognizes him from two old ages ago as the adult male whose married woman he raped, but the adult male does non acknowledge Alex. This adult male, F. Alexander, is a political dissenter. When he hears Alex ‘s narrative, he thinks he can utilize Alex to motivate public indignation against the State. He and three of his co-workers develop a program for Alex to do several public visual aspects. When they are talking to each other He berates the work forces inA nadsat, which arouses the intuition of F.A Alexander, who still remembers the unusual linguistic communication spoken by the adolescents who raped his married woman. Based on F. Alexander ‘s intuition, the work forces change their programs. They lock Alex in an flat and blare classical music through the wall, trusting to drive Alex to suicide so they can fault the authorities. Alex does, in fact, hurtle himself out of an Attic window, but the autumn does n’t kill him. While he lies in the infirmary, unconscious, a political battle ensues, but the current disposal survives. State physicians undo Ludovico ‘s Technique and reconstruct Alex ‘s old barbarous ego in exchange for Alex ‘s indorsement.

The writer

Life

Anthony Burgess was an English writer ; he was borne in Manchester in 1917 and died in London in 1993. His sister Muriel died in 1918 Four yearss subsequently his female parent Elizabeth died at the age of 30 on November 1918, Burgess was one twelvemonth old. After the decease of his female parent, Burgess was raised by his aunt, because his pa was unable to raise him.

You could state that Burgess has n’t had a normal young person. Burgess did military service during WW II. He left the ground forces in 1946, and became teacher.

In 1954, Burgess joined the British Colonial Service as a instructor. But most of his clip, he wrote and worked at his novels.

At his decease he was a multi-millionaire, go forthing a Europe-wide belongings portfolio of houses and flats.

Work

His existent name is John Burgess Wilson, but he published under the pen name Anthony Burgess. In entire, Burgess wrote more than 10 novels. He was n’t merely a fresh author, he besides wrote screenplays ( eg. The Spy Who Loved Me, a James Bond film ) . Except from being active in the universe of literacy, Burgess was besides musician and composed on a regular basis. Several of his pieces were broadcast during his life-time on BBC Radio. He wrote The Clockwork orange in 1962. This is Burgess most celebrated novel. The movie version of A Clockwork orange was released in 1971.

2 ) The novel

Main Subject

Burgess believed that “ the freedom to take is the large human property, ” This belief provides the cardinal statement of A Clockwork Orange, where Alex must follow the Ludovico intervention. When the State removes Alex ‘s power to take his ain moral class of action, Alex becomes nil more than a thing.

The chaplain, the novel ‘s clearest advocator for Christian ethical motives, addresses the dangers of Alex ‘s “ Reclamation Treatment ” when he tells Alex that “ goodness is something chosen.

Fictional characters

The chief character of The Clockwork Orange is Alex. He is the anti-hero of the novel. Alex likes to call himself “ Alexander the Large ” ; this was subsequently the footing for Alex ‘s claimed family name De Large in the 1971 movie. Alex is the leader of a pack, the tree other member of his pack are George, Pete and Dim.

The challenger of Alex ( and his pack ) is Billyboy. Billyboy besides haves a pack, these two packs frequently fight with each other.

Dr. Brodsky is a physician who is the laminitis of the Ludovico technique. There is besides another physician, Dr. Branom. This is Brodsky ‘s co-worker and co-founder of the Ludovico technique. He appears friendly towards Alex at first, before coercing him into the theater to be psychologically tortured.

Another of import character in the novel is the prison chaplain. This is the lone character who is genuinely concerned about Alex ‘s public assistance

There are many other, instead little characters. E.g. The people who are terrorized by Alex and his pack.

3 ) Book V Film

Differences

Age

There are plenty differences between the book and the movie. One of the large differences is the age of the characters. In the book the characters are younger as the characters in the movie. I will give you two specific illustrations of these differences.

– The miss that is about to be raped by Billy Boy ‘s pack is ten old ages old in the book while looking at the movie it is a immature adult female which is about to be raped by Billy Boy ‘s.

– After run intoing two ten-year-old misss named Marty and Sonietta in a record store, Alex takes place these misss and rapes them. This happens in the Book but in the movie, the misss are about 14 old ages old.

Although these differences do n’t alter the narrative or the significance of the narrative, they do alter the manner you look at the narrative. If you would see a ten-year-old miss which is being raped by a 15 twelvemonth old immature adult male, who looks like a adult male of at least 18 old ages old in my sentiment, it is non realistic plenty. Unlike a movie, a book it is non being visualised for you and so you do n’t see it. Then it ‘s flooring to read that this miss is so immature.

Ending

The stoping of the narrative is besides different between the book and the movie because the last chapter, which is chapter 21, of the book was non filmed. In this chapter, Alex meets Pete. That was the 3rd member of the original pack. Alex realises that he wishes to make the same, but his force was an ineluctable merchandise of his young person. The movie is stoping with a scene where you see a bare miss that is being raped and Alex stating “ I was cured, all right ” .

Overall there are some differences but they have about no influence on the narrative. Most of the differences are merely some little inside informations. The differences in age are merely bettering the narrative and the differences in the music ca n’t even hold any influence because you ca n’t hear music when you are reading a book. Although both terminations are different the about say the same and that is that Alex wants to alter but because of his violent childhood he will ne’er be wholly cured.

Crucial Scene

The scene takes topographic point merely before Alex is released. The Ludovico threatment has ended and it has worked. In a short presentation the physicians want to demo what they archieved.

( demo portion of film from minute 81 – & gt ; 86 )

( read book pg. 93 – 95 ; all of us )

Decision

The book is difficult to read, as mentioned before. The film of the book is first-class, each chapter in the book is a scene in the film. Although, there is a batch of expressed content in the film, the narrative is good and there is a message in it.

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