clockwork orange and cuckoo's nest

[cfalcon]

hi,
i have to do a thesis on comparing the similarities between "a clockwork orange" and "one flew over the cuckoo's nest." i have to write a thesis statement and then come up with 3 arguments supporting that. i can't think of anything good. the only similarity i see is that they are both about society versus an individual (mcmurphy against the ward staff and alex against police/friends, etc). could someone please give me a good thesis to talk about? and some supporting arguments with them? thanx a lot.

[Sitaram]

I prayed devoutly to Lord Google, and here a few answers to my prayers

(nothing you can sign your name to and hand in, but a start)

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http://www.andover.edu/english/200/pt200.html

http://www.directessays.com/categories/movies/C.html

http://barronsbooknotes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=402&t=000002

Compare to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey you can look at theme of madness, narrative perspective, dominant figures, and much more

http://www.academiclibrary.com/members/English/index14.shtml

Abuse of Power within A Clockwork Orange Abuse of Power within A Clockwork Orange by Christopher Borycheski The choice between good and evil is a decision every man must make throughout his life in order to guide his actions and control his future. This el

Comparison of Hamlet and McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A Comparison of Hamlet and McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" It is suggested that in modern literature, the true element of tragedy is not captured because the protagonist

http://www.academiclibrary.com/members/English/index20.shtml

Clockwork Orange The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "If he can

http://www.megaessays.com/categories/movies/C.html

http://www.filmsite.org/afi100heroesvillb.html

http://www.filmsite.org/cloc.html

http://www.filmsite.org/onef.html

http://www.coursework.info/330/more4.html

http://oit.vgcc.edu/psy281/ASSIGNMENTS.htm

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(I thought that the following would be interesting for other forum readers)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sartorias/60578.html

For our kids and their classmates, I think it's worked well to expose them to Shakespeare in English classes. Even our reading-challenged son, aged 20, still talks about enjoying Macbeth and Julius Caesar. The classes do a lot of "viewing" of movie versions along with reading, and we usually had some sessions of reading in parts around the table after dinner for each play too.

What has not worked well at all has been to have required reading books which were chosen 30-40 years ago as "radical" or "in-touch" but which haven't aged well. Our kids and their classmates can't stand Lord of the Flies, because they've encountered more subtle dystopic visions often in video and books, in ways that are better done. They also hated Catcher in the Rye because it didn't say anything new to them. One of them had to read some Susie Hinton. Another just struggled through Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I don't know why they didn't like To Kill a Mockingbird - I first discovered that as an adult foreigner in the USA and was enchanted with it - possibly it's because they are white in an almost-all-white-and-Asian Canadian community, and don't have any urge to make sense of that particular racist history.