What is "A Clockwork Orange"?

Answer 1

A Clockwork Orange is a fiction novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It was made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.

Set in a hypothetical future, the book tells the story of the life of its fifteen-year-old protagonist Alex who, along with his gang—Dim, George and Pete—roams the streets at night, committing crimes for enjoyment. At the beginning of the book Alex and his gang break into the house of a Frank Alexander where they rape his wife. Through some various events, Alex is convincted of murder and sentenced to a fourteen year term in jail. In jail, he tries to turn his life around, but when he gets out, he is shunned by his family. With nowhere to go, he finds his way to the house of a man name Frank Alexander...the same man whose wife he raped when he was younger.

The book is an intricate and complicated novel that makes you question everything. I would definetly watch the movie first...then read the book.

Answer 2

I know I've mastered the ability to walk, talk and read. There's nothing much left to learn in these fields, and I can do it all with complete ease. Doesn't mean I never stub my toe, slur a few words, or stumble on a sentence now and then, but I've reached a point where it's completely causal. I'm not an olympic sprinter, or a public speaker, or a speed reader -- those are all entirely separate skills -- but what I learned is plenty to get through life. I never forget that the martial arts are called an art, whether or not that's an Eastern interpretation, but in the West this does have a purpose. An art couldn't be something you perfect. Music, painting and sculpting all have near limitless potential, but stages of development that you would have to "master" to get better. A black belt, as we've explained before on here, is about having a firm understanding of the fundamentals, or "All basic movements and techniques, can be applied with extended force and proper application in basic combination." The key words here would be "all basic movements and techniques" and "extended force and proper application". I would say there is a mastery of having LEARNED the requirements and KNOW how to put them to use, just not anything further from the basics. I think people go a little too far with the word, using it mostly erroneously, but the intent of comfortably and casually using what you've learned is what they're all implying. As for the martial arts as a whole, that I believe is impossible, especially as an art.

Answer 3

Most of us know it is a movie based on a novel but from Wikipedia Burgess's explanation of the title...

Burgess wrote in his later introduction, A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is 'a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty state.'

Answer 4

A wonderful futuristic fantasy written by Anthony Burgess. It was made into a move with Malcolm McDowell.

Burgess spent years in Malaysia where the word for jungle man is "orang" - that may be where he got the title (he claimed that it was cockney slang, but nobody ever heard that expression before the book)

Answer 5

A movie by Stanley Kubrik

Answer 6

A contraversial film made in the 1970's in England. It was banned for many years but is now available again.

Answer 7

a Book written by Anthony Burguess. In which the movie is based on.