A Clockwork Orange

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The movie A Clockwork Orange takes place in the future of London. Anthony Burgess
originally wrote it. Later on made into a movie, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The movie is
to represent ultra-violence and how there is no scientific cure yet. The social context is very
violent in the beginning showing scenes of rape and assault. The movie shows a violent killer
and rapist, and an attempt to cure him that fails.
The author of A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess, also went by the name Joseph Kell.
He was born on February 25, 1917, in Manchester. His family was middle class, and their
religious background was Catholic. His family life was not easy. His father was a cashier and
piano player. His mother died of the flu in 1919, two years after he was born.
So with his mother gone and his father not doing to great financially, his maternal aunt then
raised him. His stepmother then raised him. Despite the many changes in where he was living,
he always was good in school. He continued his studies at Xaverian College and Manchester
University.
When in college he studied the English language, and literature. He finished school in 1940,
which was right around World War II. So he now had to serve at the Royal Army Medical
corps. He fell in love and got married in 1942, to an alcoholic named llwela Isherwood, who
passed away in 1968 due to alcohol.
Burgess was released from the medical corp. around 1945, and then started teaching. He held
down to jobs from 1946 to 1950. The jobs were a college professor at Birmingham University
and a teacher at Banbury Grammar School. He was not writing...