Differences Between A Clockwork Orange Book And Movie

A Clockwork Orange is one of the most controversial works of fiction ever created. Upon its original 1963 release it was regarded as overly violent and disturbing. The film adaptation, released in 1972 and directed by Stanley Kubrick, garnered an even larger reputation and was banned entirely in the United Kingdom. Even though both the book and the movie are seen as disturbing in the eyes of the public, they vary slightly in interesting and relevant ways. The movie and the book versions of A Clockwork Orange have multiple differences both through their plot and certain style choices made by the director of the movie and the author of the book respectively. In short summary, A Clockwork Orange is about a criminal youth named Alex DeLarge and his three friends named Pete, Georgie, and Dim; which he playfully nicknames “droogs.” It chronicles their eventual betrayal of our hero and his time in prison as a result. He stays in prison for a short time before being subjected to the “Ludovico Technique”, an experimental therapy designed to purge him off all unethical behavior. He is released from prison, being considered a “changed man” only to be mistreated by his parents, attacked by the homeless, abused by the police, and …show more content…
The book is written in first so the entirety of the story we’re being told is being filtered through the mind of the main character. The difference that Clockwork Orange has opposed to other books is that it takes place in a dystopian Russian-English hybrid society. The main character’s dialect is written to reflect this, so sentences like “I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to sloshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world.” are common place. (Burgess 13) This makes the book very difficult to get through for some readers and can even challenge people who would call themselves well