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‚ from the epic poem Beowulf‚ is a revered warrior who fights to protect the people of Denmark from the feared and vicious monster‚
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perspective as the Ukrainian character does not speak English well and makes many mistakes with idioms and is not politically correct. Alex comes off as obnoxious‚ materialistic in how he constantly mentions money and sex obsessed but the reader rather enjoys this foreign stereotype. His funny use of language and love of all that is American makes the reader like Alex in this introduction. The novel is set in Ukraine and here we see how the former communist country and the citizens are fascinated by
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about a character named Alex‚ who is an Ex-Agent for the top-secret government program dealing with terrorism. Alex had been approached in hiding by her former agency who needed her help with one of the most dangerous men in the world‚ who withheld a super-flu to extinct all human population. Within the novel‚ there are many diverse characters that can identify with pieces of music. Often times‚ music can be relatable in that people put their feelings into the text. To begin‚ Alex identifies with the
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aspects of the novel. Nadsat is also used to; distance the audience from the violence which allows the audience to sympathize with Alex later on due to the lack of emotional connotations in the language and to show that Burgess is commenting on the governments of the east and west because he utilizes elements of English‚ German‚ and Russian to create Nadsat. Nadsat
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his friends dying on a plane. He convinced his friends not to board that flight and saved them from that accident. Alex and his senior French class are going on a trip to France in the spring. After boarding an airplane destined for Paris‚ Alex Browning‚ a high school student going on his senior trip has a premonition about the plane exploding after takeoff. Scared and freaked out‚ Alex tries to tell everyone about the explosion causing him to quarrel with a fellow student‚ Carter Horton which gets
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10th Moral Ambiguity In the novel‚ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess‚ we are introduced to a bizarre and atypical protagonist‚ Alex. This young delinquent displays incredible depravity and revels in his random violent actions. In all of his cruelty‚ he feels no guilt and seems completely uninterested in a moral explanation for his actions. As Alex narrates in disorienting language that is difficult to decipher‚ one finds themselves yearning to understand the disturbing nature of his
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Alex wonders what a different life would be like; he never imagined that his life could actually change. Slathbog’s Gold by M.L. Forman is a good book because it is interesting and has a captivating plot. The theme of Slathbog’s Gold is that everything can change when you least expect it. Alex is a good person‚ but his character traits might betray him. M.L. Forman uses many literary devices to make this story better. He builds on his caricatures all through the book. In the book Slathbog’s Gold
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hard for. Alex moved from table to table handling everyone’s requests‚ whims and fancies‚ hoping that someone would be a loose tipper. It was a hard day. Too
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individual. That one should determine the cause and then find an exclusive treatment to resolve that individual’s case‚ then apply it. This is the case with the character Alex‚ a juvenile delinquent introduced into prisonization then conditioned by governmental moral standards. This lack of personal moral choice imposed upon Alex creates conflicting situations in which he has no control over. This is apparent when trying to readjust into society. As conflicts arise within the spectrum of criminal
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Anthony Horowitz is a great writer he has written many book series‚ Alex rider‚ diamond brothers‚ and ravin gate.he really likes action.” The book includes action that Anthony likes…” pg 39. Anthony Horowitz would like the movie based of his book stormbreaker because he would like the action and James Bond. He would like the movie because there’s a lot of action. First‚ one action part is when vole fought jack. Vole went to Alex’s house and fought jack. The passage above proves that Horowitz
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