The HandmaidsTale and A Clockwork Orange are two completely stories. THT deals with the life of one woman in a time were womans rights are gone and ACO deals with one mans violent behavior and the cruel ways that the government “cures” him. However, there are some similarities between them.
first of all, women dont seem to have as many rights as they should. this could, though, be just Alex’s mother. there arent any other women that impact Alex as much. the entire time she seemed almost druged and out of it.
the title A Clockwork Orange can almost go with either story, in my opinion. “A Clockwork Orange” come from the phrase ”As clear as a clockwork orange”. this refers to a mechanically responsive human. It’s fits in A Clockwork Orange because of the mechanical way that Alex responds to violence, sex, and Beethovens 9th. It also fits in The Handmaids Tale because of the mechanical way women are made to do through day to day life. in layman’s terms, Eat, Sleep, Shop, and ceremony. you can almost set your clock to it.
there are some complete differences. actually mostly differences. first and formost are the rapes that happen in A Clockwork Orange. In The Handmaids Tale the people in charge continuosly say over and over again, that thye reason for all of this is to help protect women from things like rape.
However to contradict myself about it being a difference, arent women really getting raped anyway. the ceremony after all is against there free will and the dictionary definition is “any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person”.
the next big difference is the violence. The worls in A Clockwork Orange is full of violence. One of the fist scenes is the three od Alex’s “friends” and Alex beating up an old homeless person, for singing. just acts of mindless senseless violence. But in The Handmaids Tale the punishment for any sort of violence is either banishment or death. few to no crimes are committed in that universe.
these are just a couple of the similarities and differeces between my dystopic literature peice The Handmaids Tale and the dystopic movie A Clockwork Orange.
