British Literature: Romanticism to Present
Professor Duncan Hasell
May 4,2017
The Clockwork for Free Will
The best of literacy helps you to think about profound ideas that you haven’t thought of previously, instead of giving you a direct answer. It guides the individual to form their own individual opinion on a subject at hand. Where the individual will learn how to explore their mind is somewhere that break the norm. To able to start comprehending, get rid of the notion of a bright hoped filled future, a future where crimes are low, a future that has fewer worries than today are dead. It is replaced by the truthfully and realistic future of a dystopian reality. A world where the policy of social Darwinism is the governing law. …show more content…
The bible in this book loses its original interpretation and implication for it what it was truly meant for the masses. In most society, it is a holy book filled with the words of god meant for salvation, redemption, and retribution that is an atonement that believes in the good of mankind. To the main character of this novel becomes a book of pleasure not because of the beauty of its attribution to saving mankind and becoming a better individual, but because of the evil and gruesome acts that mankind partook in are deplorable, violent, and monstrous. The main characters enjoy it to the point where he uses reading the horrible things that humans did as a pastime active to help relax in prison, imagine that he was one of the Romain soldiers that stabbed Jesus to receive that. In the title of this poem is used to symbolize free will and morality because A Clockwork Orange is allusion and representation of what both things are against. This due to a Clockwork alluding a machine or inanimate object that lacks free will and morals and Orange alluding to fact that inmates and prisoners wear orange due to what they decided to with their free will and moral compass. Milk is another symbol used to identify the theme of free will and morality, in the most case it is used the youth because the primary reason for milk is nourishment, …show more content…
The protagonist Alex, is unlike most protagonist, to start off is an individual that enjoys the pain and suffering of other, selfish, cunning, a delinquent, temper, evil, twisted, an anti-hero, who loves and enjoys violence, while viewing his immoral actions as if it was an art form. Usually, freewill is associated with free and positive concepts. However, During Act One with his free will and moral compass Alex got drugged up, robbed a store, raped 3 females, beat an old man bloody; one of them that dead from it while making her husband watching, got into a gang fight, stole a car, and fought with his “friends” to the point where he almost killed because he is the proclaimed leader of the group and they challenged his authority, he stated . Throughout everything that went on him, not at any given point felt any guilt or remorse for what he did. He viewed what he did as a form of art. With his free will, he acted immorally disregarding any individual that he caused suffering to just to express his art form to cure him of his boredom. So is taking the free will of such an individual an ethically or moral thing to do, even if it saves other people. Does committing a monstrous act, of stripping someone’s free will, make you a hero or greater demon than the monster at the monster you did that to. Since in Act two, this