Brent Loth AP English November 10th Moral Ambiguity In the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess‚ we are introduced to a bizarre and atypical protagonist‚ Alex. This young delinquent displays incredible depravity and revels in his random violent actions. In all of his cruelty‚ he feels no guilt and seems completely uninterested in a moral explanation for his actions. As Alex narrates in disorienting language that is difficult to decipher‚ one finds themselves yearning to understand
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"Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is a novel about moral choice and free will. Alex ’s story shows what happens when an individual ’s right to choose is robbed for the good of society. The first and last chapters place Alex in more or less the same physical situation but his ability to exercise free will leads him to diametrically opposite choicesgood versus evil. The phrase‚ "what ’s it going to be then‚ eh?‚" echoes throughout the book; only at the end of the novel is the moral metamorphosis complete
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A Clockwork Orange 2 A Clockwork Orange: Movie Critique One of the most controversial films of the early 1970’s‚ or even of all time‚ was a film that took the aspects of Aversion Therapy and Classical Conditioning to an all new level. A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick (1971)‚ based on the novel by Anthony Burgess‚ illustrates what happens when different types of psychological therapy are used to treat violent behavior. The main character in this movie‚ Alex‚ along with his
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The first time I saw the book name “A Clockwork Orange”‚ I think it is weird. What is “clockwork orange”? Clockwork is a structure of a machine while orange is a fruit. This awkward combination makes no sense to me. And that’s just what the author was trying to express‚ the feeling of awkward‚ queer and bizarre. By reading the introduction in the beginning part of the book‚ I came to know that Clockwork oranges exist only in the speech of old Londoners. The image was a bizarre one‚ always used for
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This Must be a Real Horrorshow Novella if you’re so keen on my Viddying it. Anthony Burgess’ 1962 dystopic satire‚ A Clockwork Orange takes place in a future Londonesque city governed by a repressive‚ totalitarian super-state. In this society‚ ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive lethargy of complacency‚ blind to the illusive growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. Our Humble Narrator and anti-hero is Alex‚ a sly‚ witty‚ charming‚ Beethoven loving 15 year old nadsat who heads a party
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Anthony Burgess ’ A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel set in an oppressive‚ futuristic state. Published in 1962‚ A Clockwork Orange is an extremely intense‚ graphic‚ and‚ at times‚ horrifying novel. A reader begins to question their own values as they become numb and desensitized to the violence at hand. Both behaviorism and free will is occurring throughout A Clockwork Orange. A Clockwork Orange brings up a question‚ how much control of our own free will do we actually have? Do we really
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“There is a little Alex in all of us” In Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange one important question keeps popping up throughout the whole book. The question is does goodness exist in this novel? “Burgess novel is troubling and frustrating on a number of levels. He has presented us with a stark image of evil‚ and perhaps of a greater evil in attempting to counteract it” (Newman 68). I would have to say that no one in the novel is good. From beginning to end; page after page in one way or another
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A Clockwork Orange The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange‚ by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man’s free will and the ability to choose one’s destiny‚ good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil‚ then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State"(Burgess ix)
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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
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It was whilst reading The Clockwork Orange that I met a protagonist who as unapologetically evil and I was fascinated‚ it led me to discover more literature that dealt with the darker side of human existence; literature that explored the transgressive and subversive. My curiosity for the morbid and dark only grew through my reading of novels like American Psycho‚ Frankenstein‚ Naked Lunch and Lolita; novels which tried to describe something wholly alien yet contain something I found familiar. Unlike
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