A Clockwork Orange (Term Paper)
A Clockwork Orange is a controversial work in which the setting is in a futuristic society in which, political powers have subsided and lawlessness, violence, and youth gangs terrorize the people. Free will is the cost that Alex De Large has to pay in a society that is so dominated by violence. Anthony Burgess, in his novel A Clockwork Orange, contends that unless man freely chooses to reject the attraction of violence, rehabilitation and conditioning only works if man’s free will is destroyed.At one point or another a person has experienced the appeal of violence. Violence has its ways to make people want more, similar to an adrenalin rush. Alex, who is the narrator, tells the story through the first person point of view. Alex and his Droogs (followers) experience violence on a nightly basis. On one particular night Alex and his Droogs were walking along when they saw a drunken old man who asked them for a quarter. “One thing I could never stand is to see a filthy old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going Blerp Blerp in between, as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts.” At this point they started to beat the old man fiercely with no regret for th
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Approximate Word count = 1725
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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