Dystopian novel „A Clockwork Orange“ by Anthony Burgess

Abstract

        Anthony Burgess is 20th century British writer with an outstanding style and vi­sion. According to the plot a large number of the writer's novels are about violence, co­n­frontation between personality and society. The writer has entered the history of li­te­rature as the author of psychological and intellectual novels. Burgess' writing style has immediately attracted the attention of a wide reading public. European and Ame­rican cri­tics had a different attitude towards „A Clockwork Orange“.

        Unhealthy environment, war, social distress, doubting the existence of God, acce­p­tance of false values ​​cause a person's longing for „morbid ugliness“. Where is the sou­r­ce of Alex's spiritual trauma? Did the „destruction of the present“ cause Alex's spiritual „metastases“? Perhaps, foreseeing the future is the cause of human misery and the source of existential fears? Loss of trust in society is followed by personal alie­na­tion, in­difference, irresponsibility, violence, and mental madness.

        We think that Alex is a victim of the „Age of Destruction“. The rebellious teenager gradually returns to society and he begins to understand good and evil. Classical music - Beethoven's „Best Ninth Symphony“ helps him in this. Alex is a victim of an aut­ho­ri­ta­rian regime. The heartless government took away his most precious freedom, his love for music and art.

        The vey article is followed by discursive thinking, analytical, connotative searches, critical analysis, meditations, multi-dimensionality of thought, and  confrontation me­thod.