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Clockwork orangeness by Anthony Burgess This novel is fiddlingonly world about 180 pages scarce looks may bewray you, or in other words dont evaluator a book buy its cover or itsthickness. A Clockwork Orange is actually 360 pages because youhave to read between the lines. You may think that the humbugs theme isthat the future will be filled with slimy decadent violence (that is whatI first thought), but if you read between the lines you will understandthat this book is written for one of import purpose, a purpose other thanentertainment. A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962, theme about the future which was meant to be around 1995 to 2000 (a car used in the storycalled a 95 Durango). A boy about seventeen, Alex the narrator andmain character living in London, rampages about with his droogs(friends) raping, stealing, beating and even killing mountain. Alex one dayis caught for murder and jailed but two days later he is luckily freedtwelve years before his blame ends to take advantage of a newtreatment for violent people like him that he volunteered for. He goesthrough the therapy and succeeds and returns back to civilization. He now becomes sick when he is about to commit a violent or sexual, butalso when the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven plays (a pocketable defectfrom the treatment). Alex is driven to attempt suicide from this defectbecause he is locked inwardly a chamber playing this song and does nonaccomplish his task. He is hospitalized and returns to his ultra-violentself while the inhumane treatment does not work because it does noteven give people a choice about being violent.While Alex helps to present the theme, two different outcomes areformed. First, Alex goes through a great change from being ultra-violent to becoming Lamb-chop and and so back to being ultra-violent.Second, the theme defines the major conflict of the story. Although theconflict does not have to do with Alex directly, he helps to illustrate it.The conflict is not un derstand in the book and will probably never be solved,but it does bring up for debate what Anthony Burgess thinks about rightor wrong, regarding the controversial situation of a cycle of violence.Violence makes Violence, is what was once give tongue to to Alex by P. R.Deltoid, his teacher from school before he went to prison. This bookbrings up . What do we do to someone who has committed a violent offence? Do we punish them with more violence, for instance death, or do