Unhomely Homes in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange

Authors : Işıl Öteyaka

Pages : 865-879

Doi:10.29000/rumelide.1502246

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Publication Date : 2024-06-25

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Anthony Burgess\'s A Clockwork Orange, originally published in 1962, manifests the concept of \"home\" as both a physical space and a psychological state of the unhomely. This manifestation is an unsettling portrayal of home as a space and place, which serves as a locus of terror and estrangement within the narrative. The narration displays the idea of home through different locations such as room, house and prison each one of which deconstructs the idea of home by decentering it from its established conceptions of a safe, comfortable and cozy place. The juxtaposition of safe and unsafe situations related to home mainly reveals home within an estrangement through which home becomes a place of unhomely and uncanny, a location of terror framed by elements of family ties, cultural and political contexts. Through an examination of social and political dynamics, exemplified by the extreme actions of protagonist Alex and his gang of \"droogs,\" the study aims to unravel the complexities of home as both a place and space of the unhomely and uncanny in Burgess\'s A Clockwork Orange.
Keywords : Anthony Burgess, Otomatik Portakal, ev, tekinsiz