A Clockwork Orange
English Composition 102
April 27, 2012
Morality: Manner, Character and Proper Behavior
INTRODUCTION In his film A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, an American film director and producer, creates a futuristic London where youth gang violence and other social subjects are portrayed. The main character, Alex DeLarge, is a sociopath who likes listening to Beethoven and is fascinated with raping women, amongst other things he is also the leader of the gang, which consists of Dim, Georgie and Pete. The film shows the crimes of all four men and their relentless violence inflicting physical and mental pain on others. Alex DeLarge is betrayed by his friends while at a burglary ending up in prison on a fourteen-year sentence for murder and rape. Two years later while still incarcerated Alex is chosen for a new experimental project, the Ludovico Technique, where he undergoes a ruthless regimen for two weeks. He is strapped into a chair, eyelids propped open and forced to watch violent movies while listening to his favorite composer Beethoven. After being “cured” he is released back into society. In the scene before being released, the prison chaplain says, “There is no morality without choice”, (A Clockwork Orange). The main point of this film is surrounded by the questions of can a violent man become peaceful and or different in the way that he treats people, can this rehabilitation occur while incarcerated and once released will that man remain rehabilitated or eventually return to his natural ways.
THESIS
“There is no morality without choice” (A Clockwork Orange). Manner, character and proper behavior are all traits that the majority of world citizens would like for everyone to have, but this is not realistic, not everyone is going to act or feel the same as one another, and not everyone is able to change what he or she have come to know and live by their entire lives. In the case of Alex DeLarge who is a sociopath, he
April 27, 2012
Morality: Manner, Character and Proper Behavior
INTRODUCTION In his film A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, an American film director and producer, creates a futuristic London where youth gang violence and other social subjects are portrayed. The main character, Alex DeLarge, is a sociopath who likes listening to Beethoven and is fascinated with raping women, amongst other things he is also the leader of the gang, which consists of Dim, Georgie and Pete. The film shows the crimes of all four men and their relentless violence inflicting physical and mental pain on others. Alex DeLarge is betrayed by his friends while at a burglary ending up in prison on a fourteen-year sentence for murder and rape. Two years later while still incarcerated Alex is chosen for a new experimental project, the Ludovico Technique, where he undergoes a ruthless regimen for two weeks. He is strapped into a chair, eyelids propped open and forced to watch violent movies while listening to his favorite composer Beethoven. After being “cured” he is released back into society. In the scene before being released, the prison chaplain says, “There is no morality without choice”, (A Clockwork Orange). The main point of this film is surrounded by the questions of can a violent man become peaceful and or different in the way that he treats people, can this rehabilitation occur while incarcerated and once released will that man remain rehabilitated or eventually return to his natural ways.
THESIS
“There is no morality without choice” (A Clockwork Orange). Manner, character and proper behavior are all traits that the majority of world citizens would like for everyone to have, but this is not realistic, not everyone is going to act or feel the same as one another, and not everyone is able to change what he or she have come to know and live by their entire lives. In the case of Alex DeLarge who is a sociopath, he
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