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A Study Guide for Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Gale Researcher Guide for: A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess's Black Comedy (1962) and Stanley Kubrick's Violent Grotesque (1971) is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
3) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of A Clockwork Orange with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, which follows the teenaged Alex as he and his "droogs" rampage through their city committing acts of extreme violence, which they enjoy and for which they feel no remorse. When Alex is captured and convicted of murder following a brutal attack on an elderly...
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Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.
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Warner Home Video
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[2007]
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2 DVDs (2 hrs., 17 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2007]
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1 blu-ray (2 hrs., 17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In an England of the future, Alex and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on "a little of the old ultraviolence," while jauntily warbling "Singin' in the Rain." After he's jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady to death, Alex submits to behavior modification technique to earn his freedom; he's conditioned to abhor violence. Returned to the world defenseless, Alex becomes the victim of his prior victims....
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2012
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3 blu-rays (429 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A spaceship computer malfunction leads to an incredible journey for an astronaut; while in prison for murder and rape, a young man undergoes an experimental process that is supposed to reform violent criminals; a man starts to become disturbed by visions when he and his family take care of a remote hotel for the winter.
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