A Clockwork Orange
The “bildungsroman” framework for a novel exists in many timeless classics; however, the framework of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange does not follow this schematic exactly. A glaring difference between a conventional “bildungsroman” novel and A Clockwork Orange exists in the idea that the protagonist must engage is some personal moral or spiritual conflict. In A Clockwork Orange, Alex can not experience any sort of spiritual or moral dilemma as “he ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice” (126). Aside from Alex’s failure to face moral conflict, A Clockwork Orange follows the “bildungsroman” framework. In a “bildungsroman” novel the protagonist must examine their surrounding society or culture. The two cultures present in the novel are that of the bourgeois and the nadsats. Alex examines as well as explains society and the differences between each culture for the reader: “The day was different from the night. The night belonged to me and my droogs and all the rest of th
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Approximate Word count = 678
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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