a clockwork orange is an englishenglish
english is a language influenced by french.
novelnovel
the novel is a medium of literature. commonly, a novel will take place in an urban, social environment and have an omniscient perspective and cut between various characters acting at the same t... by anthony burgessanthony burgess
anthony burgess was a scholar of joyce and the writer of a clockwork orange. he translated oedipus rex. he was influenced by shakespeare.
published in 1962 set in a dystopian future following alex, a young teen who commits crimes until he's caught and forced to watch videos of horrific crime until he finds violence repulsive. it asks questions about free willfree will
A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills. – schopenhauer
free will is the sense that we control ourselves. But everything we know tells us that matter behaves according to a com... and justice. It's a philosophically interesting novel, as this blog post explains. this lecture about it is excellent.
It's a response to joycejoyce
james joyce was an irish writer. he wrote a portrait of the artist as a young man ulysses. influenced by shakespeare, aristotle, dante, homer, w.b. yeats, horace, ...'s aesthetic hero (an idea from nietzschenietzsche
friedrich wilhelm nietzsche (1844-1900) was a philosopher from germany. in 1869, at the age of 24, he became a professor. his first book was The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872, about greek tra...).