A Clockwork Orange: a history to help you grow up

A Clockwork Orange is a book write by the English writer Antony Burguess at 1969. It’s a old book? No. The history it´s the most actual possible: it’s a future and violent London with a population really full and some revolts adolescents.

The book tells the Alex story. Alex is a revolt adolescent (14 years old) and he have a gung, (yours three droogs: Pete, George and Dim) to make all kinds of violence (and “ultraviolences”). He kills (by accident) an old woman and is sentenced to 14 prison years. After two prison years he’s “treated” (by “The Ludovico Technique”) to be a “good” guy.

Burguess make a new language in A Clockwork Orange:  “The Nadsat”, a language used to all “nadsats” (teenagers) of book, with different “slovos” (words) and slangs. Fallowing, a part of a dialogue of the two doctors of Alex, about the language used to him:

 ““Quaint,” said Dr. Brodsky, like smiling, “the dialect of the tribe. Do you know anything of it’s provenance, Branom?”

“Odd bits of old rhyming slang,” said Dr. Branom, who did not look quite so much like a friend any more. “A bit of gipsy talk, too. But most of the roots are Slav. Propaganda. “Subliminal penetration.””

The principal reasons to A Clockwork Orange be my favorite book it’s the various debates about the right and the wrong, the good and the bad, the religion, how the society age, the claim of choices, and others polemics and important themes that help us to make opinion and grow up like   conscious citizens.

In 1971 Stanley Kubrick make a movie based in this book. It’s really good to, but it’s really better ready the book before the movie, so, you understand (real horrorshow) the real meaning of the Alex story, what is frequently confused with a history of blood, without any philosophical character.

Open your mind and go inside in A Clockwork Orange.

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