Clockwork Orange

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When Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange, John Anthony Burgess Wilson created his own world set in London during a future time when gangs and violence are rampant on the streets, "which is his own particular vision of horrors yet to come." (Olsen 114). Burgess created in his book a setting of a "dystopian novel" as opposed to a "utopian" novel. Concepts of Utopian society were based on the ideas of Sir Thomas More's visions of …

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…journalism which he wrote are all evidence to such talent. He combined the elements of music, violence, and most importantly language, in this one fiction of a turbulent and violent world to give his audience the depth and the feelings which he had envisioned in this book of a world where to many people, choice and free will are second to the well being of all- a very fascist, Nazi-like idea to say the least.