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Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess This novel is shortonly being intimately 180 pagesbut looks maydeceive you, or in other words dont judge a book buy its recompense or itsthickness. A Clockwork Orange is actually 360 pages because youhave to read between the lines. You may think that the storys theme isthat the future will be filled with horrible decadent violence (that is whatI first thought), but if you read between the lines you will understandthat this book is written for wholeness principal(prenominal) purpose, a purpose other thanentertainment. A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962, story rough the future which was meant to be around 1995 to 2000 (a car used in the storycalled a 95 Durango). A boy about seventeen, Alex the narrator andmain character living in London, rampages about with his droogs(friends) raping, stealing, beating and even killing people. Alex one dayis caught for murder and jailed but two years later he is luckily freedtwelve years before his sentenc e ends to take proceeds of a newtreatment for violent people like him that he volunteered for. He goes through the therapy and succeeds and returns back to civilization. Henow becomes sick when he is about to commit a violent or sexual, butalso when the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven plays (a minor defectfrom the treatment). Alex is driven to attempt suicide from this defectbecause he is locked within a chamber playing this song and does nonaccomplish his task. He is hospitalized and returns to his ultra-violentself while the inhumane treatment does not work because it does noteven give people a choice about being violent.While Alex helps to present the theme, two different outcomes areformed. First, Alex goes through a great change from being ultra-violent to becoming Lamb-chop and then back to being ultra-violent.Second, the theme defines the major conflict of the story. Although theconflict does not have to do with Alex directly, he helps to illustrate it.The conflict is not solv ed in the book and will probably never be solved,but it does operate up for debate what Anthony Burgess thinks about rightor wrong, regarding the controversial situation of a cycle of violence.Violence makes Violence, is what was once said to Alex by P. R.Deltoid, his instructor from school before he went to prison. This bookbrings up . What do we do to someone who has committed a violentcrime? Do we punish them with more violence, for instance death, or do