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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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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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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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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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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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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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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dystopian genre‚ two films that have left an indelible mark in the minds of the audience for impeccably portraying the “dehumanized” society are Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971). Released at almost a gap of 40 years‚ both Metropolis and A Clockwork Orange highlight societal
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