"A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man."Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is a novel 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
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“There is a little Alex in all of us” In Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange one important question keeps popping up throughout the whole book. The question is does goodness exist in this novel? “Burgess novel is troubling and frustrating on a number of levels. He has presented us with a stark image of evil‚ and perhaps of a greater evil in attempting to counteract it” (Newman 68). I would have to say that no one in the novel is good. From beginning to end; page after page in one way or another
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Introduction The La Orange Enterprise is a start-up venture for five business partner and they are ______________________. Our team will be retiring from their regular professions starting in the spring of year 2010. The oranges farm is intended to provide the company with an opportunity for post-retirement work and income‚ plus an opportunity for all of them to continue their individual research programs on agriculture and nutrition from oranges fruits. Approximately 80 acres of prime oranges fruit growing
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Anthony Burgess ’ A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel set in an oppressive‚ futuristic state. Published in 1962‚ A Clockwork Orange is an extremely intense‚ graphic‚ and‚ at times‚ horrifying novel. A reader begins to question their own values as they become numb and desensitized to the violence at hand. Both behaviorism and free will is occurring throughout A Clockwork Orange. A Clockwork Orange brings up a question‚ how much control of our own free will do we actually have? Do we really
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individual’s athletic career: sport agents. In order to understand what a sport agent is‚ we must first understand the concept of an agent. An agent is defined as “a person authorized by another to act for him‚ one entrusted with another’s business” (Staudohar‚ 2006); thus‚ a sport agent represents most individuals involved in the sport industry‚ including athletes in sports such as football‚ baseball‚ or figure skating‚ and also coaches and sport broadcasters. A sport agent has many responsibilities and
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This Must be a Real Horrorshow Novella if you’re so keen on my Viddying it. Anthony Burgess’ 1962 dystopic satire‚ A Clockwork Orange takes place in a future Londonesque city governed by a repressive‚ totalitarian super-state. In this society‚ ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive lethargy of complacency‚ blind to the illusive growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. Our Humble Narrator and anti-hero is Alex‚ a sly‚ witty‚ charming‚ Beethoven loving 15 year old nadsat who heads a party
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English Composition 102 April 27‚ 2012 Morality: Manner‚ Character and Proper Behavior INTRODUCTION In his film A Clockwork Orange‚ Stanley Kubrick‚ an American film director and producer‚ creates a futuristic London where youth gang violence and other social subjects are portrayed. The main character‚ Alex DeLarge‚ is a sociopath who likes listening to Beethoven and is fascinated with raping women‚ amongst other things he is also the leader of the gang‚ which consists of Dim‚ Georgie and
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A Clockwork Orange The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange‚ by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man’s free will and the ability to choose one’s destiny‚ good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil‚ then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State"(Burgess ix)
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needs an advantage. “[The military] sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over 4.5 million acres of land in Vietnam...Agent Orange‚ which contained the chemical dioxin‚ was the most commonly used of the herbicide mixtures‚ and the most effective‚” (“Agent”). In total‚ this agent accounted for 11-13 million gallons of the total herbicides released. Agent Orange was later found to be the origin of various health problems; these include tumors‚ birth defects‚ skin irritation‚ psychological
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Principal-agent problem is a particular game-theoretic description of a situation. There is a player called a principal‚ and one or more other players called agents with utility functions that are in some sense different from the principal’s. The principal can act more effectively through the agents than directly‚ and must construct incentive schemes to get them to behave at least partly according to the principal’s interests. The principal-agent problem is that of designing the
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