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A Clockwork Orange

Fight Club

Apocalypse Now

Rated "S" for "stylized"

  • Reflects upon human race.
  • "A generation of men"
  • Rapid spiral/spread of Fight Club
  • Ordinary people. Crowd.
  • "French Beaches." Ireland. Universality of violence.

The nihilistic view of modern life

  • "Money isn't everything"
  • "The blood... real beautiful..."
  • "Swing it beautiful"
  • "Dancing... waltz"
  • "Gentle bit of boot"
  • Unreliable narrator
  • Music/Culture
  • Use of nadsat.

Left to their own devices

Glorification and worship of Violence

  • "More rozzes or millicents about during the day"
  • Taking advantage of human nature.
  • Hobbes
  • Lack of authoritative control.
  • Ludovico treatment

Joys of carnage

  • "A copy of a copy of a copy."
  • The equation. Mathematical, sterile.
  • "Working jobs we hate to buy crap that we don't need."
  • "What a waste." Wasted "generation of men raised by women"
  • Insomnia; unnatural, dysfunctional
  • Support groups. Appreciate death and destruction.
  • Launch sequence. Near-life experience
  • "Guys trying to look like men."
  • "Thirty year old boy and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need."
  • "Generation of men raised by women."
  • "This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

Sadistic pleasures of violence

  • Hero worship of Tyler
  • "Greatest moment of your life."
  • "Self destruction is the answer"
  • "Without sacrifice, we would have nothing."
  • "Fight Club wasn't about winning."
  • "Space Monkeys." Ascension.

The fading arrogance of youth

Global scale of brutality

  • "Shoot every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species right between the eyes"
  • "Burn all the rainforests... French beaches"
  • "Destroy something beautiful"
  • Crucifixion
  • "Spatted"
  • Suicide
  • Police force, prisons, government, library, government, Deltoid, films...
  • "Worldcast"
  • "Adult world that could take the responsibility for this with their wars and bombs and nonsense."
  • Nameless city.
  • Grows up. "Too old for the old ultraviolence"
  • Romantic music. Human progression.
  • Children. Cycle of violence and progression. Sacrifice.
  • Nietzche; eternal return

The contradiction and futility of anarchy

  • Project Mayhem
  • Robert Paulson
  • "Heaven"

When all is said and done

  • Potential for human brutality
  • Importance within human history
  • Pleasures of violence and anarchy
  • Hopeful for the future
  • Empty promises of destruction

Fight Club vs A Clockwork Orange

To what extent to these books show inherent violence in human nature?

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