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Jesus of England
The detailed depictions of assault, rape and murder in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess led to the censorship of a movie bearing the same title, and led the American Film Institute to name the protagonist, Alex, the 12th greatest villain in the last 100 years of American film. However, this designation is ironic because Burgess presents Alex as a figure representative of perhaps the greatest hero of all time: Jesus Christ. Burgess gradually strengthens this connection throughout the novel. At the beginning of the book, the reader quickly learns that Alex has a group of followers similar to Jesus’ disciples and that the two leaders occasionally teach the same lessons. Later, Alex refers to himself the same way a prayer mentions Jesus. Both leaders eventually fall to the same fate; they end up betrayed by one of their followers and teased, beaten and spat on after the police capture them. Once in prison, a reluctant authority figure grudgingly approves......

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