Anthony Burgess is the story of Alex‚ a egomaniac gang leader who lives for violence. Throughout the novel Alex is seen committing several crimes‚ including robbing‚ raping and assaulting innocent people. Not only does he commit all of these crimes‚ but he also thoroughly enjoys doing them‚ accompanying them all with his own poetic monologue. After being arrested‚ he agrees to be brainwashed into hating violence‚ but in the end he still reverts back to his old gang ways. Alex is a psychotic poet who thrives
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Describe the demographics of the character of “patient” that you are evaluating. Alex Forrest was the patient in this movie. She is a white female in her 40’s. She is single and works as an editor for a publishing company‚ however she is not shown working after the beginning of the movie. 3. Summarize the plot of the movie. As the movie begins‚ Dan and his wife‚ Beth‚ go to a company party when he meets Alex Forrest for the first time. The next morning Beth and daughter‚ Ellen‚ leave for
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father responds‚ “The question is whether or not his technique really makes a man good‚ goodness comes from within‚ goodness is chosen‚ when a man can not choose‚ he seizes to be a man” (Kubrick‚ 1971). This is a conversation between the delinquent Alex and the prison chaplain in the 1971 film‚ A Clockwork Orange. They are discussing the Ludovico technique‚ which is an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals‚ but all this technique seems to do is take away a man’s free will. “The
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a whole. In 1971‚ Stanley Kubrick uses first person narrative to shows the inside clockwork of a young boy (Alex; played by Malcolm McDowell) and how he manipulates the world around him for his twisted violent pleasures‚ in the movie A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick uses many creative ways in score‚ symbolism‚ and themes thought the film to portray to the audience on how the mind of young Alex and society works. For most of the score in A Clockwork Orange‚ Kubrick uses excerpts of Beethoven’s work for
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Characters : - Alexander (Alex‚ alec) Alicia (Alex’s Mum) Frederick (Alex’s Dad) Jerry Setting: - Early 20th Century Ireland‚ WW1 in France (Two settings) Summary – Part 1 * The story starts with the narrator Alexander Moore who is awaiting his death by a firing squad. * We get an indication early on in the text that the relationship with his parents is not good. * ‘My heart doesn’t bleed for her’ referring to his mother. This shows us that he did not have much love for his mother
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Mitchell Ronayne English 200:15 A Clockwork Orange Essay 5 Dec 2013 Malenky Machines: Off It Itties The decision to choose between good and evil is one simple choice that separates a human from being a machine. Being unable to choose from the two is “…like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside” (Burgess‚ 203). There comes a point in a man’s life where he stops being a machine and becomes something else entirely. In the book A Clockwork
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Chapter 9: Night Visitors (threat of danger and Clue #3) Begins with Alex going to meet Herod Sayle. Herod is playing snooker with a footstool because he’s so short. Alex bets Herod – 100 dollars a point for Herod and 100 hours of labor for Alex. Alex wins game. Alex eats dinner with Herod. Herod tells them they’re eating goat‚ that he reminds him of Ian Rider and asks What he was doing when he was snooping. Alex wakes up at 1:30. Jumps in back of truck. Stops at beach where submarine
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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”‚ “cheenas”‚ “droogs”
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Name Movie: XXY Name Student: Anneloes Engels XXY The movie is about a girl‚ Alex who is hermaphrodite and lives in a quite place in Uruguay with her parents. One day old friends of her parents are coming with their son‚ Alvaro. Their visit has a purpose; to transfer Alex with a surgery to a girl (the father of Alvaro is a doctor). At the moment they are coming Alex stopped taking her medication and a decision has to be made soon….. The movie has a quite heavy subject; hermaphrodite. It
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do ya think Alex would like this? MAYA: Hard to say. We barely know her. CASS: Well‚ I think she would. [CASS checks her cellphone again.] MAYA: Why did you invite her over? CASS [bored tone]: I don’t know. She seems kinda lonely‚ I guess. MAYA: I mean‚ she’s only been in school for a week now… CASS: Ah huh. MAYA: And already she has a bad rap. CASS: She has a tattoo though‚ and like‚ a motorcycle. MAYA: So? CASS: So‚ it’s pretty
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