A Clockwork Orange Quotes

[Anonymous No.4152382]

I need help for a paper due tomorrow lit.

Can you give some of the most controversial quotes from the book A Clockwork Orange?

I am looking for the most ultraviolent, pornographic, and disgusting passages there are.

Now of the other shop, I need some truly amazing quotes that support why this book is a good read. I am looking for the moral lessons, the self vs. the government, cal like that.


I need the heighth of quote fashion.

[Anonymous No.4152394]

We're not going to do your homework for you. Put some effort into your education, you'll appreciate it in a few years.

[Anonymous No.4152410]

>trying to get other people to do your homework
There's nothing really that bad in Clockwork Orange by today's standards.
The only thing that's remotely bad is how Alex is so passe about the shit he does.

[Anonymous No.4152419]

>>4152382
"The word ‘ivory’ rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I’ve never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion."
You're gonna want this quote to serve as the basis for the entire paper; it was by far the most controversial and polarizing passage of the book. Interpret it how you will, but this should take up the majority of the essay.

[Anonymous No.4152430]

>>4152419
Nigga dis aint heart of darkness

>>4152410
>>4152394
I am not asking you to do it for me, just to help an anon out. Can you guys at least critque my choice of quotes?

[Anonymous No.4152433]

>>4152430
Supportive 1:
1. “He has no real choice, has he? Self interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was also clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrong doer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.” (Burgess 126)

[Anonymous No.4152436]

>>4152433
2. “They don’t go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that’s because they like it, and I wouldn’t ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and his great pride and radosity. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is it no our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting the big machines?
I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do”. (Burgess 40)

[Anonymous No.4152437]

>>4152436
3. “‘All right,’ I said, standing up in all like tears still. ‘I know how things are now. Nobody wants or loves me. I’ve suffered and suffered and suffered and everybody wants me to go on suffering. I know.’ ‘You’ve made others suffer’, said Joe. ‘Its only right you should suffer proper.” (Burgess 137)

[Anonymous No.4152441]

>>4152437
4. “…by definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange –meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty state. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice.” (Burgess ix)

[Anonymous No.4152448]

>>4152441
5. “What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?” (Burgess 95)

[Anonymous No.4153641]

>>4152430
Did you really just do that, I hate you