A Clockwork Orange

Title: A Clockwork Orange
Category: Literature / Novels | Words: 710 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

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 …showed first 75 words of 710 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 710 total…can easy accept his natural, perhaps god-given, self; an admirable accomplishment. A Clockwork Orange most definitely reaches a conclusion, completing a full cycle. Alex is introduced at the beginning of the novel, proceeds to become a different person as the novel progresses, however, eventually returns to his original character. The novel achieves its conclusion in a non-traditional, however, not wildly radical, fashion, as Anthony Burgess only drifts from the “bildungsroman” design for a short time.

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