{"id":49057,"date":"2019-06-20T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=49057"},"modified":"2019-06-18T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T01:29:58","slug":"a-clockwork-orange-dystopias-and-apocalypses-extra-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/06\/20\/a-clockwork-orange-dystopias-and-apocalypses-extra-sci-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> &#8211; Dystopias and Apocalypses &#8211; Extra Sci Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZi4V4lMtHw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 18 Jun 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/ExtraCredits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/ExtraCredits<\/a> to get 75% off a 3 year plan and use code <code>ExtraCredits<\/code> to get an extra month free. Protect yourself online today!<\/p>\n<p><em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> reflects a cultural fear of society&#8217;s moral decay in the 1960s. Its usage of a mashup slang language known as &#8220;nadsat&#8221; illustrates the complexities of rebellious youth culture. Ultimately, Anthony Burgess&#8217;s work asks us to think about if or when free will should ever be suppressed, but the major differences between the book and the film version of this story present contrasting takeaways.<\/p>\n<p>Where the dystopias of <em>Brave New World<\/em> and <em>1984<\/em> warned against the easy slide into totalitarianism, and painted for us worlds in which freedom is nearly a forgotten thing\u2026 <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> presents us with a protagonist who has almost an excess of freedom, and in doing so it shows us the shift in societal fears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-20-A-Clockwork-Orange-\u2013-Dystopias-and-Apocalypses-\u2013-Extra-Sci-Fi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-20-A-Clockwork-Orange-\u2013-Dystopias-and-Apocalypses-\u2013-Extra-Sci-Fi-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-20-A-Clockwork-Orange-\u2013-Dystopias-and-Apocalypses-\u2013-Extra-Sci-Fi-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-20-A-Clockwork-Orange-\u2013-Dystopias-and-Apocalypses-\u2013-Extra-Sci-Fi-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-20-A-Clockwork-Orange-\u2013-Dystopias-and-Apocalypses-\u2013-Extra-Sci-Fi-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-20-A-Clockwork-Orange-\u2013-Dystopias-and-Apocalypses-\u2013-Extra-Sci-Fi-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-20-A-Clockwork-Orange-\u2013-Dystopias-and-Apocalypses-\u2013-Extra-Sci-Fi.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published on 18 Jun 2019 Go to https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/ExtraCredits to get 75% off a 3 year plan and use code ExtraCredits to get an extra month free. Protect yourself online today! A Clockwork Orange reflects a cultural fear of society&#8217;s moral decay in the 1960s. Its usage of a mashup slang language known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[311,400,122,85,504],"class_list":["post-49057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","tag-1960s","tag-language","tag-movies","tag-sf","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cLf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49060,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49057\/revisions\/49060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}