Real Horrorshow

This book explores the way Anthony Burgess depicts narcissism and violence through the protagonist of his novel A Clockwork Orange and compares it to the adaptation by Stanley Kubrick. Using Freud’s personality theory the character’s personality and actions as they are mediated in the novel and the film are analysed. Another aim of this book is to explore the way the philosophical/ethical question of free choice is negotiated in the two different medial representations of the protagonist’s story.