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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Lewis and Burgess present their novels in different forms – Burgess writes A Clockwork Orange in bildungsroman‚ presented in retrospective first person narrative and continually displayed within Burgess’ choice of ‘unreliable narrator’ (The Rhetoric of Fiction‚ Wayne Booth‚ 1961)‚ which is used by Burgess to show Alex’s justification of his crimes‚ and therefore his inability to objectively narrate; whereas Lewis’ omniscient “salacious and blasphemous elements of his narrative” (Nick Groom‚ 2016)
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A Comparison of A Clockwork Orange and 1984 In futuristic literature one often encounters political systems that dominate and oppress. In George Orwell’s 1984 and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange‚ government control uses various methods to force the citizens to conform. Brain washing was used for a common purpose in both stories‚ to forget and change the characters past actions. In A Clockwork Orange‚ brain washing was used after Alex had committed all his crimes‚ as a method of treatment for
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A Clockwork Orange Ramon Moses Globe University A Clockwork Orange A clockwork Orange is a very unique move that uses a lot of natural lighting throughout the movie. According to the book there are two sources of light‚ it can be natural or artificial. A Clockwork Orange uses a lot of natural lighting. While watching the making of the movie the audience may notice the use of reflector boards on some of the shots‚ even though natural lighting was used during the movie. Because of the
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The representation of youths in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘If….’ I will be investigating how youth is represented in the films A clockwork orange (1972) and If…. (1968) and how the films affected the views of the time and how the films influenced youths. I have chosen to investigate these films because of how both films were released at the time of the relaxation of violence in cinema. I also chose these films because the similar themes in both films‚ as both films focus on youths in society and
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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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A Clockwork Orange Film Analysis Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange was a deeply disturbing depiction of human nature that shed light onto dark thoughts in the character’s soul. Alex seems to have no regard for human decency or human life. He and his gang of friends kill at will. They have no purpose for their violent outbursts other than to shock and degrade their victims. They have fun making others suffer. This is the logic that is upheld by Friedrich Nietzsche in his approval of Prosper
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ is a bildungsroman and dystopian novel about a teenager named Alex‚ a Beethoven-loving‚ head-bashing punk who leads his gang of “droogs” on “ultra-violent” assaults. In ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Burgess often uses language‚ form and structure to help the reader understand the bizarre‚ dystopian society in which it is set and the unique personality of Alex. Nadsat language often appears throughout the extract; we usually experience it through Alex or his droogs. We see the use of “vecks”
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of controversy. There are numerous ways to punish a criminal‚ some methods are more effective than others and in turn‚ some are more questionable than others. The best option is the most optimum and humane method of punishment. In the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess‚ the main character‚ Alex goes through this same conundrum. Alex is a juvenile delinquent who finally succumbs to the law and is subjected to a questionable
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The dystopian novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ written by Anthony Burgess‚ was originally published in 1962. It takes place in the future‚ where the streets are overrun with violence and crime. The main character‚ Alex‚ commits horrible crimes‚ including rape and murder with his group of friends. After breaking into a house‚ Alex is arrested and undergoes an experiment called Ludovico’s Technique. He can no longer make immoral choices‚ and feels sick when he thinks about any wrongdoing. He is vulnerable
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