in Waiting for Godot. Who is Godot ? Why are they waiting for him? 9) A Clockwork Orange from a Marxist perspective. Which society is Burgess satirizing: the communist or the capitalist one? Why? 10) The question of identity in post-modern writings. Define post-modern identity as understood from one of the texts you have read (The Magus‚ Lord of the Flies‚ Waiting for Godot or A Clockwork Orange) You shall answer to two of these questions and then apply an approach
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both A Clockwork Orange and the modern world‚ including Bulgaria. On the other hand‚ slang is any new form of language‚ specific for a certain group of people‚ as is in Geroge Orwell’s 1984 – Newspeak is a completely new form of language that the government introduces to the nation in order for it to replace completely original English. Yet‚ Newspeak is still a form of slang. However‚ here is shown another use of it: slang as means of control‚ exactly the opposite of its use in A Clockwork Orange and
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an adult? For many the right answer is that it has nothing to do with age; it is determined by the behaviour. In this essay I will not go into the issue of when a child turns into an adult but rather think about how the issue is treated in "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess‚ "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger and "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby. From the point of view of growing up‚ the novels are quite similar. They are all from the point of view of the youngster‚ and we don’t really
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classic novel‚ A Clockwork Orange. The compelling speeches display a significant level of hope and optimism by creating a distinctive‚ reasoning and humble voice that addresses issues of inequality and racial conflict; and by outlining their intention of unifying and motivating the nation in order to create change and a more prosperous future. This allows a greater understanding of people and the world‚ and can be compared to the ever-changing voice portrayed in A Clockwork Orange. John F. Kennedy
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Alex is the leader of his gang‚ has a privileged place in it to enjoy hurting‚ controlling every detail. Nothing escapes his approval in his misdeeds‚ and he and the rest enjoy being violent. Gets a unique pleasure to see blood‚ that is linked to music. Both make him feel an indescribable pleasure when he hits someone. Music is used against him in Ludovico treatment as aversion therapy of violence‚ and is associated to negative feeling that hurts and makes him feel physically ill (Classical conditioning:
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Have you ever thought about manipulating another person to believe that something is present when it is not actually there? This can be easily done through the concept of classical conditioning. What is classical conditioning you may ask? Classical conditioning is a learning process in which a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus. The conditioned stimulus is a neutral stimulus like the sound of a bell‚ the unconditioned stimulus is the object in which the neutral stimulus
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Fede: In “A Clockwork Orange”‚ one of the leit motifs of the story‚ is the sadistic violence that overcomes Alex’s character‚ throughout this quotes we are going to analyse the obsession towards violent acts that this misfit is trapped. Alex starts evoking his obsession from the beginning of the book when he and his “droogs” attack an innocent old men when going out of a library‚“…and that made the old veck start moaning a lot then‚ then out comes the blood‚ my brothers‚ real beautiful. So all
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Freedom is appealing because it defends choice. In choosing‚ one grows to the beat of her own individuality. In the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ Anthony Burgess creates a character‚ Alex‚ who chooses evil over goodness‚ until he is arrested and stripped of his free will. Within prison‚ he is chosen to be the first participant of the Ludovico Technique‚ an approach that is suggested to rapidly yield promising results‚ by which he becomes forced to be sickened by violence and by the music of Beethoven
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Judgements and Identity Every person has an identity or some defining features that can be used to describe them. Identity can be either the way that one perceives their self‚ or how one is perceived by others. However‚ certain aspects of identity can cause harm to an individual. This harm can be both at the hands of others or at the fault of the person in question. Things such as a person’s appearance and clothing‚ morals and past actions‚ socioeconomic status‚ or even a person’s habit or habits
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but to run away from the situation in hopes of outrunning his opponents. This is the case displayed by the central character Alex‚ an embodiment of governmental control and power surviving in an environment of political and social turmoil‚ in A Clockwork Orange. Alex‚ a self-imposed gang leader‚ experiences the Ludovico technique firsthand‚ a governmental experiment that effectively erases the moral choice that he had once possessed. Afterwards‚ he is left in a state of aftershock‚ terrified by the
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