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Existentialism in A Clockwork Orange
The novel “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess is a book about free will and the difference between doing right and choosing to do right. In the book Alex is a 15-year-old hooligan who spends his time beating people in the street and raping women with his friends Dim, Pete, and Georgie. The Book deals with issues about free will that are important today and will continue to be relevant many years from now.
The book begins with Alex and his friends in a bar, wondering what to do that night. They go off and find a cottage where they beat the man inside and rape his wife. They go to another bar, in the bar a women is singing opera and Dim makes an obscene gesture to her. This makes Alex, who enjoys classical music, very angry he then punches Dim in the face. Dim thinks that Alex was way out of line and plots to turn on him. A few nights later they break into a woman...
The novel “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess is a book about free will and the difference between doing right and choosing to do right. In the book Alex is a 15-year-old hooligan who spends his time beating people in the street and raping women with his friends Dim, Pete, and Georgie. The Book deals with issues about free will that are important today and will continue to be relevant many years from now.
The book begins with Alex and his friends in a bar, wondering what to do that night. They go off and find a cottage where they beat the man inside and rape his wife. They go to another bar, in the bar a women is singing opera and Dim makes an obscene gesture to her. This makes Alex, who enjoys classical music, very angry he then punches Dim in the face. Dim thinks that Alex was way out of line and plots to turn on him. A few nights later they break into a woman...
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