ENGL 2110 - How do you think Alex’s situation in A Clockwork Orange

ENGL 2110 

In our reading this semester, we have focused a lot of attention on gender as it relates to violence, as well as how different genders are represented in violent literature. For this short essay, I’d like you to focus on either the character of Alex or Villanelle, from the texts, and then reimagine their role within those texts if their gender were reversed. How do you think Alex’s situation in A Clockwork Orange would be different if Alex had been portrayed as female? What if Villanelle had been male? How do you think the author’s representations of the characters would change? Keep the culture of each novel in mind,but how would that help shape your opinions of either character? How might you as a reader expect either character to act as a different gender, and why? Look at these questions as springboards for other ideas and go from there.

Aim for roughly 500 words as a length for the essay, or roughly two and a half hand written pages.

Give examples of your reasoning, but you are not expected to specifically cite from the texts.