Website review: A Prophetic and Violent Masterpiece...
Soaressilva discovered this in Literature
•3 reviews since Jan 28, 2006
literature, clockwork-orange
•city-journal.org/html/16_1_oh_to_be.html
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j4m3sb0nd rated 12 months ago- Indeed, not a bad review, but the bias is quite thick. There is certainly a generalised, culturally self-centred sense to it; 'all old people are mature, all young people are immature', this mentality cuts the cultural conditions and full scope of the issue, not to mention that there immature and mature people of any age, and we merely give the label of age as a generalised cause/trend tag. This is especially the case with psychology, it seems to be general practice to generalise an issue to a few 'causes' like age, without exploring the true reason for the general trend - I believe it is purely a cultural thing, and when it comes to 'age', peers/family/culture have one of the greatest impacts on psychological conditioning.
- strangerbox rated 28 months ago
- From the page: "Not for Burgess was the orthodox liberal view that economic deprivation and lack of opportunity cause crime. The gang [in A Clockwork Orange]'s solipsistic and dehumanizing argot reflects this cold-bloodedness. Sexual intercourse, for example, becomes "the old in-out-in-out," a term without reference to the other participant, who is merely an object." Been a while since I read anything particularly interesting about this book. Check it out.
