Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Anthony Burgess is 20th century British writer with an outstanding style and vision. According to the plot a large number of the writer's novels are about violence, confrontation between personality and society. The writer has entered the history of literature as the author of psychological and intellectual novels. Burgess' writing style has immediately attracted the attention of a wide reading public. European and American critics had a different attitude towards „A Clockwork Orange“. Unhealthy environment, war, social distress, doubting the existence of God, acceptance of false values cause a person's longing for „morbid ugliness“. Where is the source of Alex's spiritual trauma? Did the „destruction of the present“ cause Alex's spiritual „metastases“? Perhaps, foreseeing the future is the cause of human misery and the source of existential fears? Loss of trust in society is followed by personal alienation, indifference, irresponsibility, violence, and mental madness. We think that Alex is a victim of the „Age of Destruction“. The rebellious teenager gradually returns to society and he begins to understand good and evil. Classical music - Beethoven's „Best Ninth Symphony“ helps him in this. Alex is a victim of an authoritarian regime. The heartless government took away his most precious freedom, his love for music and art. The vey article is followed by discursive thinking, analytical, connotative searches, critical analysis, meditations, multi-dimensionality of thought, and confrontation method.
Author: Koba Tsurtsumia
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4413924569