Novel Research

Anothony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, it was inspired by an incident during WWII in which his wife was robbed and assaulted by deserters from the U.S. army, after which may have led to her subsequent miscarriage, causing her to become depressed and an alcoholic and later killing herself from alcohol. The book was an exqmination of free will and morality. In the book there were originally 21 chapters, meaning to match the age of maturity, but when it is published in America the publishers take the last chapter out ,saying the American audience wouldn't go for it, in which Alex is happily cured. The last chapter is then replaced with a dark mood ending. Anthony Burgess didn't fully agree with the way Stanley Kubrik portrayed his book in the movie of A Clockwork Orange, saying "a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence."