novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ carries many themes prevalent to the time-period of the novel’s release. In a futuristic city governed by a repressive totalitarian super-state‚ humans have become machines or lower animals. The main protagonist of the story‚ Alex‚ asserts his free will by deciding to live a life of debauchery and violence before being robbed of his free-will by the government. When A Clockwork Orange was written the war against Communism was at its peak. With many countries such as Russia and
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Violence and Corruption Alex‚ the fifteen year old narrator of Anthony Burgess’s novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ lives in a society where violence reigns. This novel has a very direct nature‚ and is often blunt to the point of offense‚ but this makes it more powerful and helps to further its point. This point is that everyone is out for themselves‚ whether they be the police‚ government or citizens of this society. In this book‚ the police can be just as violent as Alex and his droogs‚ or gang. In
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language forms conversations between the narrator‚ Alex‚ and his teenage‚ delinquent friends. There are many assumptions as to why Burgess chose to complicate A Clockwork Orange by filling it with the confusing Nadsat language. Some opinions are that the language shows A Clockwork Orange readers where Alex and his "droogs" were located socially in society‚ or that Burgess was attempting to brainwash his audience‚ just as the authority figures brainwashed Alex and other members of their community‚ or finally
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night the leader of a gang that rapes and brutally assults inisant people. By night Alex DeLarge is exercising his free will as he does whatever he wants. But this asks the question‚ what would be a fair punishment for such crimes? It’s certainly considered immoral to rape and violently assault people in their very own homes. But is it then considered moral to steal someone’s free will? These questions genuinely
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the oxymoron. The ultra-violence done by Alex and his droogs is unthinkably bad‚ yet for the police to beat the criminals is socially acceptable? It is made quite clear throughout the novel that the police even consider such brutality to be fun. When Alex is taken into custody‚ he refuses to speak until he has a lawyer. He knows the law‚ he says. The head policeman replies‚ " we know the law too‚ but that isn ’t everything." He then proceeds to punch Alex in the stomach as the other policemen "laugh
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Animal "Languages" From: Fromkin‚ Victoria‚ et al. 2007. An Introduction to Language. 8th Edition. Boston: Cengage. Is language the exclusive property of the human species? The idea of talking animals is as old and as widespread among human societies as language itself. All cultures have legends in which some animal plays a speaking role. All over West Africa‚ children listen to folktales in which a "spider-man" is the hero. "Coyote" is a favorite figure in many Native American tales‚ and many an
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Clockwork Orange is written in the first person by the main character‚ Alex. Three of his "droogs"(friends) that help him in his crimes are Dim‚ Pete‚ and Georgie. Throughout the story‚ the author creates his own language called "nadsat"‚ which is used by the youth of the futuristic world. "Nadsat" is a mix of Russian‚ English‚ and the slang words of both. The story begins at the start of a wild and violent night with Alex and his friends sitting in a diner. To start a typical night they encounter
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It also echoes one of the aforementioned explored themes: fate and free will. The novel concludes with Alex finally deciding ‘what it’s going to be’‚ by him consciously deciding to discard his previous violent and ‘evil’ habits. Society and religion recur frequently in A Clockwork Orange‚ and each hold similar views and opinions concerning choice and good vs. evil. In Part 1‚ Chapter 4‚ Alex wonders why ‘evil’ is analysed and goodness is not only universally strived for‚ but accepted as the norm:
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A Clockwork Orange‚ by Anthony Burgess‚ is a satirical novel‚ in which the society is heavily criticized and is revolved in many controversial issues‚ regarding to human nature‚ morality and human freedom. Alex‚ the protagonist of the novel‚ shows the darkest side of mankind and society. Due to Alex’s obscene behaviors and crimes that he has committed‚ the state attempts to cure him with the controversial Ludovico’s Technique‚ by forcefully “injecting” him with goodness and depriving him from human
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The government of the State lets the young adolescence run wild and rampant. Alex leads his group as a communist dictator who is later over thrown. Both Alex and the State use varied forms of propaganda to convince their followers that they are right. The State and Alex both have similarities to the United States and Russia during the Cold War. From the vary start of the book the influence of Russia is seen. Alex and his "droogs" hang out at the quite Russian sounding Korova Milkbar which serves
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