There are four basic necessities to sustain life: food‚ sleep‚ shelter‚ and air. Without these four things‚ humans cannot survive‚ but are living and surviving two different concepts? In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Love Is Not All”‚ she argues that while love does not keep us alive‚ it is the one thing in this world worth more than food‚ or shelter‚ or air. While basic necessitates for survival are wonderful‚ even they cannot overcome the human desire for love‚ shown by how the author sets up
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Van Gogh painted this piece in 1889 while he was in Saint Rémy seeking treatment in a mental asylum. Interestingly enough‚ he painted this piece from his memory and it was supposed to have been based on a constellation arrangement he had seen earlier on in the night sky of Provence. Starry Night is perhaps one of his most famous and yet most elusive works. The first thing that I noticed was the overwhelming night sky‚ which takes up most of the background. Its swirling‚ flowing lines appear to
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view of an anti-hero‚ our main character‚ Alex. He is a 16 year old criminal who is involved in violence‚ rape murder and robbery throughout the book. After reading the whole book‚ I think the whole story can be divided into three parts. The first half of the book focuses on Alex’s criminal and ultra violence lifestyle‚ the second part focuses on Alex rehabilitation in prison‚ and the third based on Alex’s entry back into society. The novel opens with Alex and his gang‚ Pete‚ Georgie and Dim at a
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into a passive stupor of complacency‚ blind to the insidious growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang‚ which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals through the streets‚ robbing and beating men and raping women. Alex and his friends spend the rest of their time at the Korova Milkbar that serves milk laced with drugs and a bar called the Duke of New
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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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fake eyelash and an elaborate top hat‚ symbolically the mockery of a civilised society‚ and it is through this intimate close-up that the audience realises that the character of Alex is i n fact an evil one. This is further reinforced in his character’s name‚ “A-lex”‚ which literally means ‘without law’‚ showcasing that Alex is a character with a “law unto himself”. This choice of character’s name‚ coupled with the intimate close-up‚ demonstrates that he does not care for positive interactions within
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narrator Alex‚ is a teenager in a futuristic city where citizens are controlled by a corrupt‚ authoritarian government. Adult society seems to have been brainwashed into a trance as their free will is stifled. Alex is at odds with the citizens of this uber- controlled society because his free will is unfettered by super-ego and his propensity to use brute force is useful to the totalitarian government. We must first look at a typical day in his life at the beginning of the novel to understand Alex. He
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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 and Alex is finally able to answer the question
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In the novel/film “A Clockwork Orange” written/directed by Anthony Burgess/Stanley Kubrick‚ we are thrown into a futuristic dystopian world of England. In this world we are thrown into a society where a 15 year old boy named Alex narrates his life through this area. Alex‚ the Faustian protagonist of A Clockwork Orange‚ and a sadistic and depraved gang leader preys on the weak and innocent. Alex’s society/neighborhood consist of a lot of youth violence and corruption within the state. The film stays
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where violent criminals are forced to be "good‚" and introduces us to Alex‚ a young teen who engages in a life of rape‚ ultra-violence‚ and Beethoven with his "droogs‚" or friends‚ and talks in the slang language of "nadsat." He goes through various phases in his life‚ evolving into a more mature level of thinking; each of these phases can be seen as clockwork orange. What makes this novel so realistic however‚ is how real Alex really is and how each of his phases into maturity represents a part
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