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Fight Club And A Clockwork Orange

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Advanced Higher English Assessment: Outcome 1

An Analysis on the use of Setting and Characterisation in ‘Fight Club’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’ to Develop Character and Explore the Themes of Violence and Power.

In ‘Fight Club’ by Chuck Palahniuk and ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess both effectively develop character through the use of setting and characterisation. In ‘Fight Club’, the novel starts with an unknown narrator who is describing his home in great detail. The lengthy description of the house entails the various complaints he has about his living arrangements, and further on in the passage, how he would feel if it was to be blown up – apathetic, it just happens sometimes. Thus, setting the obscurity with which this character …show more content…

The ‘chill winter’ may be a reference to the numbness that these teenagers are feeling when committing such horrendous acts. They are apathetic when committing them and when Alex goes on to mention ‘dry’, it will also be alluding to the thirst that these teenagers have for violence.

The review of the 50TH Anniversary edition of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Lucian Robinson agrees with the fact that Alex and his friends seem to commit such violent acts just to fulfil a bizarre desire that they have. The gang commits these acts sporadically which hints that they are indeed done at will as Robinson says: “gangs maraud nocturnally, carrying out random acts of "ultra-violence" at will”

Similarly, the theme of violence is thoroughly displayed in ‘Fight Club’ through the use of setting and characterisation. Firstly, the author highlights the theme through the use of …show more content…

He paints the scene in the milk bar that there is three women at a counter, but there are Alex and his three droogs – this conveys the fact that they can get what they want through numbers alone. The fact that the women are all sitting in the counter together shows strength in numbers, but Alex will be able to penetrate that defence with the help of his friends. The theme of power is portrayed very subtly at times by Burgess, but when the topic of beatings and rape comes up, he displays it both implicitly and

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