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    Nadine Gordimer‚ South African writer and Nobel Prize winner‚ said that penetrating fiction doesn’t give answers‚ it invites questions. This quote is accurately reflected in Anthony Burgess’ novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ in which many questions and moral values are explored. Burgess strongly believed that humans’ ability of choice is the only factor distinguishing us between animals or machines. The two most predominant recurring themes of and questions relating to the novel involve ‘good vs evil’

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    "A Clockwork Orange" "A Clockwork Orange" is a film about a gang of "droogs" who take pleasure in crime. They enjoy raping and torturing their innocent victims for their own pleasure. The main characters ’ name is Alex. Alex ’s diagnosis is Antisocial Personality Disorder (Psychopath). When caught and arrested‚ classical conditioning is used in order to rid Alex of his vindictive thoughts‚ but is not very successful. Antisocial Personality Disorder is a Disorder that cannot be easily diagnosed

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    cycle" films using the article entitled "The Left and Right Cycles" by Robert Ray. To help me explore what makes up a "left cycle" film‚ I will compare two movies‚ both "left cycle" according to Ray. Those movies are "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Clockwork Orange". What makes both of these movies "left cycle"‚ and how to they differ within that classification? First‚ I think it is important to differentiate between the "left" and "right" movies. What Ray says to this is "the three factors that superficially

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    possibility of moral transformation‚ or an increase in wisdom‚ operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing” (Burgess). In the novel A Clockwork Orange a moral transformation is shown whereas in the film it is absent. Although Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange and the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film version are similar in matters of the use of nadsat language and the presence of a self-serving deceitful government‚ they are however different in terms

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    superficially aware of why his interactions with women are exclusively sexual‚ but there is an underlying issue with his mother that prevents him from having a deeper connection with women. 2. What type of psychic energy motives Steve‚ according to Freud? Libido‚ that controls sexual drive‚ is what has been motivating Steve over a majority of his life. 3. Which of Freud’s personality types does Steve display? What evidence is there for it? What would have caused it? Steve displays the

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    many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has good imposed upon him?” (Burgess 106). Within Burgess’s novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ the significance of choice is emphasized. The methods used to impose good on those who commit evil acts are assessed and address how moral choices are the only way humans are able to distinguish themselves from machines. In the absence of moral

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    Plato finds that society can be easily consumed by the mimetic imagination‚ in which people are tricked into believing that the imaginary is reality. Plato’s condemnation of the mimetic imagination alludes to Stanley Kubrick’s postmodern film‚ A Clockwork Orange (1971)‚ which features a youth gang driven by images of sex‚ violence‚ and drug‚ set in a dystopian future Britain. Furthermore‚ Kubrick’s film resembles Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ as the prisoners of the imaginary are introduced to new realities

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    Death of a Loved One Sigmund Freud’s Theory The Interpretation of Dreams‚ came to be by his personal experience he had on an emotional level over the death of his father. In The Interpretation of Dreams‚ Freud talks about “Dreams of the death of beloved persons” which I find interesting myself. Freud states that this is a typical dream to have and that there are two classes: one being where it does not affect the dreamer and the other where the dreamer “feels profoundly grieved by the death

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    In nineteenth and twentieth centuries Europe‚ Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud published books with radical ideologies that would have great influence and relevance on society today. These two men worked in very different occupational fields‚ but they were both able to communicate their thoughts regarding society and human nature. Karl Marx is most known for his publication of The Communist Manifesto and the formation of the political ideology‚ Marxism. Most of his philosophies revolve around societal

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    Clockwork Cruelty The names Stanley Kubrick and Antonin Artaud are ones that are not often‚ if ever‚ heard together in the same sentence. However‚ this does not mean they have nothing in common. In fact Kubrick ’s film A Clockwork Orange shares elements with Artaud ’s Theatre of Cruelty. This is seen in the disorienting use of language‚ visuals in which “violent physical images crush and hypnotize the sensibility of the spectator” (Cardullo‚ 375)‚ and in how the film ’s

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