A Clockwork Orange Response Part 3 Chapters 4-7 A theme conveyed in the last chapter of Anthony Burgess’s novel‚ A Clockwork Orange is about the transition from his childhood to becoming an adult. From the beginning‚ Alex was a violent‚ cruel‚ and immature teenager and now embraces a new image of living a peaceful and mature lifestyle. Most importantly‚ he intentionally wants to change his true image so that his future son will be able to follow his footsteps. This is a prime example of how Alex’s
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In the novel A Clockwork Orange‚ by Anthony Burgess‚ the main character and narrator Alex undergoes a series of trials as he strives to figure out life. He starts out as a young delinquent who does whatever he pleases whenever he does. There is no one controlling him or enforcing rules upon him. He has complete and udder freedom over his own life‚ and it affects others in a negative way. His crimes catch up to him one day‚ and he is charged with murder and thrown in prison. While in prison‚ Alex
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In 1971‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ a philosophical and dystopian film written‚ produced‚ and directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ was released. Before being withdrawn from the British public sixty-one weeks after its release‚ by Kubrick himself‚ this movie gained the attention of several different groups- churchgoers‚ media‚ police‚ local authorities‚ teenagers‚ and other townspeople. While some reactions to the film were positive-specifically among teenagers and young adults- there were numerous negative reactions
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Anthony Burgess ’ novel‚ A Clockwork Orange has been called shocking‚ controversial‚ and horrifying. A Clockwork Orange is controversial‚ but to focus merely on the physical aspects of the work is time wasted. Burgess is concerned with the issue of ethics. He believes that goodness comes directly from choice; it is better to choose the bad than to be forced into doing the good. For taking away a person ’s free will is simply turning them into a piece of "clockwork"; a piece of machine containing
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Psychological concepts in A Clockwork Orange At the start of A Clockwork Orange‚ you are introduced to Alex and his droogs. They are at a milkbar drinking milk-plus. Milk‚ plus types of drugs that enhance Alex and his droogs ultraviolence‚ which is the main backdrop to the story that leads to other psychological events. Drug addiction is a complex disorder that is compulsive and often uncontrollable. This is a chronic relapsing disorder‚ and treatment for drug addiction is about as effective as treatments
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of belonging‚ as it restrains our freedom and forces us to only mimic. My studied texts show how society demands us to conform‚ yet conformity prevents a sense of true identity being created. This notion is elaborated within the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ a dark testimony to the power of the individual and the malevolence in forced conformity. The protagonist‚ Alex‚ is a criminal who doesn’t belong anywhere within society. In the novel‚ the government attempts to suppress his criminality by physically
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Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess are two books with a similar environment. The books environments are influenced by a lack of humanity‚ lack of civility‚ and human spirit. Salman Rushdie quotes‚ “Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and the human spirit.” Salman Rushdie’s quote and the books that have been mentioned above share the idea that we can explore and learn from these fictional or nonfictional situational
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protagonist is the one who is to define the perspective in which the story is told to the reader. More importantly the protagonist’s actions and qualities are what set aside the protagonist from all of the other characters in a poem or novel. In A Clockwork Orange the protagonist‚ Alex is portrayed as a violent fifteen-year-old boy who deals with the inability to express his violent nature due to a treatment that forces him to feel pain every time he thinks about a violent thought. On the other hand‚ Beowulf
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A Clockwork Orange‚ by Anthony Burgess‚ is a satirical novel‚ in which the society is heavily criticized and is revolved in many controversial issues‚ regarding to human nature‚ morality and human freedom. Alex‚ the protagonist of the novel‚ shows the darkest side of mankind and society. Due to Alex’s obscene behaviors and crimes that he has committed‚ the state attempts to cure him with the controversial Ludovico’s Technique‚ by forcefully “injecting” him with goodness and depriving him from human
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Journal Entry #3 – A Clockwork Orange Burgess’ novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ carries many themes prevalent to the time-period of the novel’s release. In a futuristic city governed by a repressive totalitarian super-state‚ humans have become machines or lower animals. The main protagonist of the story‚ Alex‚ asserts his free will by deciding to live a life of debauchery and violence before being robbed of his free-will by the government. When A Clockwork Orange was written the war against Communism
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