A Clockwork Orange Essay Research Paper Modernistic — страница 3

society ( he is inconsequential and without a vote), and therefore a cure is welcome even at the cost of Alex s freedom of choice and identity as a human being. The good of society is put ahead of individual rights. The State and society will both profit from Alex sreclamation. There is also a reference to a mural that seems to possess characteristics of the impressionistic features of Modernism. Nudes were usually gods or goddesses lounging around and in the Municipal painting in Municipal Flat 18a that Alex describes is naked men and women that are stern in the dignity of labour at workbench and machine (31). Burgess has rendered amagnificent thriller of a novel that embodies all of the objectives and concerns of the modernist writer. Burgess introduces the idea of new

alternatives in the final chapter (the one that is missing from the American version). Alex has lived a life of horror and crime, but has the opportunity to make a change of his own free will, and decides to do just that. This is Burgess s forum to magnify the potential horrors of a government (and of the science of consciousness and repetition) that he saw was threatening to deprive people of their essential right to choose. His message is that it is better to have the choice to do bad than to be forced to do good. Burgess delves into his own experience with a nadsat like Alex to give this novel its force and to give validity to its ultimatemessage. I saw Stanley Kubrick s film version of A Clockwork Orange several years ago, and hated it. At the time, I felt that it was a film

that was glorifying rape, violence and the degradation of women. I am glad that I did not let this discourage me from reading this novel. I foundBurgess s tale to be not only intriguing but extremely poignant in issues of State and religion