How is A Clockwork Orange a dystopia?

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Anonymous Sat Apr 24 23:15:03 2010 No.592801 [Reply] [Original]

How is A Clockwork Orange a dystopia?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 24 23:16:03 2010 No.592804 more like a UTOPIA amirite,droogs?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 24 23:16:03 2010 No.592807 Because, as evidenced by speech near the beginning of the book, there's very little police action. And then the whole treatment Alex is given is pretty fucked up. The movie doesn't really treat it as much like one, but it's more present in the book.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 24 23:28:03 2010 No.592835 Because people like Alex and his friends, and that other gang in the beginning, seem to abundant. Also, that treat seems to be an embodiment of something, probably societal but I was never sure.

Anonymous Sat Apr 24 23:35:03 2010 No.592857

The government is too lenient with bad people and punishes good people for petty reasons.

For example the old writer is punished as a political criminal while the government while the REAL criminals like Alex DeLarge are allowed to run wild, and even when they do get in trouble are able to worm their way out relatively easily.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 24 23:35:03 2010 No.592861 >>592801 Because the methods they use to achieve said utopian ideals (ie, the reprogramming of alex) result in the suppression of individual freedoms. Dystopia.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 24 23:40:03 2010 No.592882 >>592857 I don't remember the movie/book well enough to know about the old writer, but why do I feel like you're being a huge troll with the Alex thing :-p

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