The Role Of Women In A Clockwork Orange And Catcher In The Rye

The Setting of the novel plays a big part in the role of the women. I am going to look at the role of women in the following novels; Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, The Merchant of Venice and Catcher in the Rye; as well as the role of women in the time that the writers wrote the novels. I am going to prove that both the author’s setting and the character in the novel’s setting is affected by the way in which women are portrayed in the novel. The setting is, in turn affected by the historical events, the philosophy and the beliefs of the era.
The novel, Catch-22, is a satirical novel that is full of homosociality, a term that is used to refer to the relationships and situations shared by individuals of the same sex, although verbally always used exclusively to refer to relationships between men (Simpson, et al., …show more content…
During that era there were women like Mary Quant that contributed to the fact that they want women to have a better life. And then we get the novel where Anthony Burgess degrades the female characters. The women are only there for the fun of Alex and his Droogs, for example when Alex and his droogs break into the cabin and rape the women in front of her husband. Also when they go to break into the house of the cat lady they only refer to her as the cat lady, she does not have a name. Very few of the female characters have names, this way Alex and his droogs don’t get personal with the female characters, they only use them for their pleasure and then leave. The women in the novel are treated worse than the men; the men at least have names while very few of the women have names. When we look at this we can see that Alex and his droogs see the women as play things and nothing