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Trapped in a World You Didn’t Choose

The Choice to Escape: Reviewing Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’ and Anthony Burgess’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’

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Joel J Miller
Jan 25, 2025
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Stories turn on struggle, and literary theorists tell us there are a handful of universal conflicts: man versus self, versus man, versus fate, versus nature, versus technology, versus the supernatural.

Another? Man versus society.

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange.

Sparks are bound to fly for individuals born into a world with…

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