Both Brighton Rock and Clockwork Orange focus mainly around the two criminal characters.

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Both Brighton Rock and Clockwork Orange focus mainly around to criminal character’s and both go into in depth breakdowns of the minds of their criminal main characters and use this to encourage readers to become interested and engulfed in the books. Greene and Burgess both use depictions of the criminal minds to interest the readers.

One way Greene does this is through narrative methods such as illustrating Pinkie’s thought process during the attempted murder of Spicer and his own eventual attack by Colleoni this gives the reader an detailed look at the thoughts of Pinkie and the criminal mind and this gives the character depth which involves the reader and creates interest in the characters. This is similar to the way Alex breaks down his arrest.

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Furthermore Greene contrasts the criminal minds between Pinkie and Colleoni’s minds with a clear gap in maturity between the two demonstrated through things such as Colleoni’s superiority regarding money ‘You see the gold on them furnitures? Napoleon stayed here with Eugenie.’  This shows how crime can lead to someone being admirable and almost a hero to Pinkie showing how easily the criminal mind can be influenced and interest’s people by seeing how the criminal mind will develop.

Moreover Greene constantly uses foreshadowing to depict the criminal mind. By having Pinkie rub his vitorol bottle shows the paranoia of the criminal mind ...

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