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Political Undertones of A Clockwork Orange The topic of my essay is the undercurrent of politics that flow through the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. As some people would be supportive of political views rising throughout the novel, and some against, I feel that it is in the freedom of the artist to do whatever they wish with their art, whether it be written, visual, musical, or film. To say that art should or should not contain a certain element is rather fascist and I am, with examples from selected sources, going to argue the right of the author (Burgess) to include political perspectives and themes in his work. "the key issue here is freedom of choice" (Mathews p.37). I will first make a comparison of Burgess' book to Stanly Kubrick's adaptation of the novel regarding the presentation of the police. In the novel, the police are made out to...

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