forthcoming future in a stately controlled country. The anti-hero Alex rebels against the state using violence and is consequently locked up. Later he is turned into a harmless subject without free will‚ powerless of perpetrating any crime. However‚ through the Ludovico Treatment‚ the method in which the state turns Alex into a harmless subject‚ violence is represented as two forms: A tool for control by the state or a perpetrator of pain for Alex. This representation of violence can be paralleled to George
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in both films‚ as both films focus on youths in society and there place in society‚ And also how Malcolm McDowell’s character Michael Arnold "Mick" Travis in ‘If….’ served as an inspiration for his character in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A clockwork orange’ Alex Delarge and the similarities between the two characters. In this investigate I hope to show how both films where important in the time they were released in the way youth was represented to audiences and the public. Looking at the representation of
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novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ carries many themes prevalent to the time-period of the novel’s release. In a futuristic city governed by a repressive totalitarian super-state‚ humans have become machines or lower animals. The main protagonist of the story‚ Alex‚ asserts his free will by deciding to live a life of debauchery and violence before being robbed of his free-will by the government. When A Clockwork Orange was written the war against Communism was at its peak. With many countries such as Russia and
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Violence and Corruption Alex‚ the fifteen year old narrator of Anthony Burgess’s novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ lives in a society where violence reigns. This novel has a very direct nature‚ and is often blunt to the point of offense‚ but this makes it more powerful and helps to further its point. This point is that everyone is out for themselves‚ whether they be the police‚ government or citizens of this society. In this book‚ the police can be just as violent as Alex and his droogs‚ or gang. In
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fear is also there however the first-hand account is missing as the audience only get the side of the evil dictator-Alex and his gang- until later in the novel when the government take away Alexs’ freedom although even then sympathising with Alex is not something the audience can do after all he still is as bad as he was before he began the treatment and critics would argue that Alex deserved the treatment. Similarly both societies are violent and run using harsh techniques such as the ludivicos
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grow out of it‚ but doesn’t know how to; he needs the initial push which starts with Laura leaving him. Contrary to this‚ Alex in A Clockwork Orange doesn’t want to grow up. He loves his life on the streets‚ robbing and beating people up. However‚ he makes a crucial mistake‚ he lets his ambitions get the best of him which leads to his friends turning their backs on him and Alex has to go to prison. Because of his immaturity he wants to be the leader of his gang and that is the process that starts
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language forms conversations between the narrator‚ Alex‚ and his teenage‚ delinquent friends. There are many assumptions as to why Burgess chose to complicate A Clockwork Orange by filling it with the confusing Nadsat language. Some opinions are that the language shows A Clockwork Orange readers where Alex and his "droogs" were located socially in society‚ or that Burgess was attempting to brainwash his audience‚ just as the authority figures brainwashed Alex and other members of their community‚ or finally
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night the leader of a gang that rapes and brutally assults inisant people. By night Alex DeLarge is exercising his free will as he does whatever he wants. But this asks the question‚ what would be a fair punishment for such crimes? It’s certainly considered immoral to rape and violently assault people in their very own homes. But is it then considered moral to steal someone’s free will? These questions genuinely
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience Themes by William Blake Major Themes The Destruction of Innocence Throughout both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience‚ Blake repeatedly addresses the destruction of childlike innocence‚ and in many cases of children’s lives‚ by a society designed to use people for its own selfish ends. Blake romanticizes the children of his poems‚ only to place them in situations common to his day‚ in which they find their simple faith in parents or God challenged by
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the malevolence in forced conformity. The protagonist‚ Alex‚ is a criminal who doesn’t belong anywhere within society. In the novel‚ the government attempts to suppress his criminality by physically preventing him from thinking of violence—thus making him conform to their standards. This is allegorical for how society attempts to make us conform to what is considered ‘normal’. Towards the end of the novel‚ the character F. Alexander tells Alex: “They have turned you into something other than a human
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