“A Clockworck Orange” by Anthony Burges, is a novel that relates a terrible daydream of England in a future time where bands of adolescent hooligans ignore the main rules of living together in society, and every night take control of the town. The novel describes the different violent acts that Alex, a fifteen year old boy and the protagonist of the novel, carries out with his three “droogs” (friend-servants) against several random victims. Alex is betrayed by his friends and is caught in one of his acts and send to prison. Imprisoned he decides to escape in exchange of subjecting to the new “Ludovico Technique” which promises to eliminate all negative thoughts he or any other person could have. This technique however is proved to be particularly harmful to Alex’s life, impeding him to do nearly anything he likes or is amused with. Through this passage we can observe the narrative devices that the author employs in order to narrate this story.
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