A' Clockwork Orange

This essays weren't about the usual arguments about how A' Clockwork Orange is pornographic, or the use of language, or how violent it was. They were about a more specific theme in the book, music .

In “A Clockwork Orange and Its Discontents” the author focuses on how Beethoven's music is related to the freedom. Freedom to coose is one of the main themes in the book, Alex talks and talks about how you were born, good or evil but you can choose if you want to follow your nature or the societies principles. When Alex gets to into jail they apply to him the Ludovico's Technique, a way of torture to him, using images to make him think differently and getting away his right to choose between being bad or good. He became A'Clockwork Orange.

“Pulping A Clockwork Orange: The Visual Adaptation of the Novel as a Violent Form of Interpretation” talks about how music was included in the movie with the purpose that the hard scenes to see in the movie became more "normal" or for easing up the ambient. It also makes us think how Alex thinks, how his insanity works. While Alex makes violent acts to others or is having sex with multiple women he plays Beethovens music, who does that?. 

I think the music throughout the movie is the nadsat throughout the book, because it makes the scenes more adapted to the audience without making it agressive to our eyes. Nadsat was included in the book with the purpose of cenzuring the words and acts making the audience less grossed out and the music in the movie makes kind of the same effect, it makes the audience feel sympathy for Alex, it makes us think he is not in his right mind and it's not really his intention to hurt people.

I can't say that the book is better than the movie or the movie better than the book. Both, Kubrick and Burgess had the same purpose, to make the violent scenes verbale to our eyes. In the movie actors were older but the scenes violent but music was included so that it was easier to see. In the book nadsat was applied. Both were masterpieces from my point of view. Some might consider the movie as  porn or violent but I would like to see them create such a masterpiece of a book to a movie and not make a pornographic or an extreme violent movie.