A Clockwork Orange Comparison Essay

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess are two books with a similar environment. The books environments are influenced by a lack of humanity, lack of civility, and human spirit. Salman Rushdie quotes, “Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and the human spirit.” Salman Rushdie’s quote and the books that have been mentioned above share the idea that we can explore and learn from these fictional or nonfictional situational environments. Both of these books teach and portray the cruel parts of human society and also relates to the quote from Salman Rushdie.

Angela’s Ashes takes place in Limerick, Ireland during the 1930s. The main character, Frank, tries to find happiness, but it becomes a challenge due to poverty that has fallen
The main character, Alex, is sadistic, a sociopathic teen and the anti-hero. This book portrays youth violence and dominance over the elderly. In the beginning of the book, Alex and his friends beat up a poor old man, this man quotes, “I don’t want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one… It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there’s no law nor order no more.” Another quote that is in the book “there’s not no attention paid to earthly law[,] nor order nor more.” From both of these we can see that both books relate to the quote from Salman Rushdie and it also portrays the cruel parts of human society.

I felt like it can relate to my experiences when reading these two books and Salman Rushdie’s quote. The reasons why this quote can relate to my experiences is because I felt that I was exploring the “lowest places of human society” while reading these books. In conclusion, each of the books did indeed prove the quote claims and I do recommend these two books to anyone who wants to look at the world in a deeper