Comparing Kubrick s Film And Burgess Essay - 1494 Words

A difference and slight similarity between Kubrick’s Film and Burgess’ novella is the narration. In both, Alex is the narrator and uses Nadsat vocabulary to describe his acts of violence, however, the film narrative is perceived as less powerful as the novella. In the book, Alex’s narration accentuates his cruelty, pleasure, and lack of remorse. His pleasure is highlighted in the book displaying his dark thoughts, making the novella A Clockwork Orange appear to be a more grotesque piece in language than the film. This is evident in an act of violence, the raping of two ten-year-old girls. In the film, Alex has what appears to be consensual sex with two women around or a few youngers than himself, that the met in a record store. In the novel, he meets two ten-year-old girls instead and purchases them some food in addition. He then convinces them to come with him where they become intoxicated and he rapes them. Alex in the novella narrates the aftermath, They looked like they had been in some big bitva, as indeed they had, and were all bruised and pouty. Well, if they would not go to school they would still have their education. And education they had had. They were creeching and going ow ow ow as they put their platties on, and they were like punchipunching me with their teeny fists as I lay there dirty and nagoy and fair shagged and fagged on the bed. (36) Whereas the film, nothing but the scene of Alex and the two young women having sex is shown. Another difference