Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Title: The title of this great book is A Clockwork Orange. ... Alexander is a professional writer and Alex finds a book; ironically, it is called A Clockwork Orange. ... The type of aversion therapy they use in A Clockwork Orange is called “Ludovico’s Technique”. ... A Clockwork Orange is derived from the old London slang term, “He’s as queer as a clockwork orange.” Meaning he is as strange as it gets, but Burgess has given a clockwork orange a whole new meaning. Clockwork means machine like, like a robot, and he is like an orange because no matter how hard they try to change Alex, (peel the orange) he (it) will still be Alex (an orange). ... Setting: A Clockwork Orange has two settings: out in the world, where he is in the first and third section of the book; and “Staja” [State jail], where he is the second section of the book. ... The other setting in A Clockwork Orange is the “Staja” [state jail]. ... The point of view helps tell the story; A Clockwork Orange would not have been able to have the sympathetic effect towards Alex without knowing Alex’s feelings and thoughts. Tone: The tone of A Clockwork Orange is definitely satiric. ... Irony: Irony is used extensively in A Clockwork Orange, but the biggest significant one is Alex’s view of violence before his treatment with “Ludivico’s Technique.” Many times he refers to blood as beautiful, or lovely: “Then out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful,” (7) and “He fillied [played] with the author of A Clockwork Orange making his litso [face] all purple and dripping away like some very special sort of a juicy fruit. ... Foreshadowing occurs in A Clockwork Orange when Alex asks the chaplain about “Ludovic’s Technique”, and the chaplain responds, “What does God want? ... Personal Evaluation: A Clockwork Orange is now my favorite novel.