A Clockwork Orange
Copy machines are astounding pieces of equipment. A sheet of paper is placed in the machine, a button is pushed, a heavenly light passes, and out comes a copy identical to the original. But if one were to look closely, they would find that the copy lacks some of the detail that the original boasts. This holds true with most things, the copy just isn't as clear as the original. The book and the movie of A Clockwork Orange follow this undeniable truth. Throughout this paper I will show the similarities and dissimilarities between the two. I will compare and contrast the setting, characters, and plot. The movie softens and leaves out details that the book flaunts. The first thing I will delineate are the characters. All the characters from the movie follow the ones from the book pretty well, but there are a few characters that stray. In the beginning of the book Alex, the humble narrator, is a fifteen-year old boy, but the movie portrays him as being about seventeen. There is a part in the book where little Alex meets two ten-year old girls at a music shop. Upon meeting the girls, Alex convinces them to go back to his home with him. When they arrive at his humble abode they go into Alex's room. While in his room Ale
The setting that takes place throughout the movie and the book is set more in the future where there is little law enforcement and many young hoodlums of the night. In some scenes however, the movie is done in a different place or room than that of the book. For instance, in the book when little Alex is talking to his corrective counselor, Mr. Deltoid, they are setting in the kitchen. During this conversation young Alex is wearing his pajamas while eating eggs and toast and drinking a nice hot cup of milky chai. But the movie places this conversation in the bedroom of Alex's parents' and Alex stumbles in wearing only his briefs. Another setting that has been changed is the one in which Alex undauntedly flings himself out a window. In the book Alex is taken to an apartment of his own by Z. Doblin and D. B. da Silva. While he was setting in his apartment the Symphony Number Three of the Danish composer Otto Skadelig begins filtering through the walls. Since part of Alex's experimental treatment involved music of the classic variety, he begins to feel a strong sickness from this. He starts running around the apartment banging and screaming for who ever was playing it to turn it off. When no one responds he goes for the door only to find that it was locked from the outside. He then looks for any means of exiting so he that he may escape the terrible pain and sickness. Alex then sees a window. He walks over to the window and hurls himself out onto the street below. However in the movie Alex is eating dinner at the elderly man's house. During this dinner Alex is drugged and passes out. Upon his awakening he finds himself locked in a third floor bedroom of the house. While is lying on the bed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony starts to come up through the floor. This drives him into a deep sickness
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Approximate Word count = 1224
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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