A Clockwork Orange (Criminology Theories)
A Clockwork Orange
Biography In the year 1962, there was a boy by the name of Alex DeLarge, and he was the leader of a gang called the “droogs.” He has three best friends named Georgie, Dim, and Pete who also make up the entirety of the gang along with Alex. One night, the boys decide to get very drunk on milk laced with drugs, and go out on a streak of horrible violent acts. They beat an elderly lady, fight a rival gang, steal a car, almost kill a man named Mr. Alexander, and rape his wife. After the next day, the droogs gang confronts Alex wanting more high-rewarding crimes. He beats his friends to a pulp just to show them he is the boss. Just after this they break into a rich lady’s home where Alex kills the woman but before he could escape, Dim smashes Alex’s face with a bottle of milk. The police find Alex rather woozy and bleeding from the head and arrest him. Alex is sentenced to 14 years of prison, but after the first two years he volunteers for an experiment called the Ludovico Technique. He is induced with a series of horrible images of crime, and drugged with things that make him feel horrid. He soon relates every bad thing he has ever done with feeling awful. The church where this is run wants to stop the procedure because it is robbing Alex of his God-given right to freewill. He is released from prison after a demonstration that shows Alex will never commit crime again. He returns home to find his room being rented out to another person, so he is homeless. His friends are now policemen who find him just to drag him out to the countryside and beat him senseless. He happens upon the same house in the beginning of the movie that he almost beat Mr. Alexander to death. Mr. Alexander tells him that his wife died soon after the raping, and locks him in a room while blasting some of the music that torments him into throwing up. He throws himself out the second story window, and winds up in a hospital where the doctors cure him of
Biography In the year 1962, there was a boy by the name of Alex DeLarge, and he was the leader of a gang called the “droogs.” He has three best friends named Georgie, Dim, and Pete who also make up the entirety of the gang along with Alex. One night, the boys decide to get very drunk on milk laced with drugs, and go out on a streak of horrible violent acts. They beat an elderly lady, fight a rival gang, steal a car, almost kill a man named Mr. Alexander, and rape his wife. After the next day, the droogs gang confronts Alex wanting more high-rewarding crimes. He beats his friends to a pulp just to show them he is the boss. Just after this they break into a rich lady’s home where Alex kills the woman but before he could escape, Dim smashes Alex’s face with a bottle of milk. The police find Alex rather woozy and bleeding from the head and arrest him. Alex is sentenced to 14 years of prison, but after the first two years he volunteers for an experiment called the Ludovico Technique. He is induced with a series of horrible images of crime, and drugged with things that make him feel horrid. He soon relates every bad thing he has ever done with feeling awful. The church where this is run wants to stop the procedure because it is robbing Alex of his God-given right to freewill. He is released from prison after a demonstration that shows Alex will never commit crime again. He returns home to find his room being rented out to another person, so he is homeless. His friends are now policemen who find him just to drag him out to the countryside and beat him senseless. He happens upon the same house in the beginning of the movie that he almost beat Mr. Alexander to death. Mr. Alexander tells him that his wife died soon after the raping, and locks him in a room while blasting some of the music that torments him into throwing up. He throws himself out the second story window, and winds up in a hospital where the doctors cure him of
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