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
Among the visitors were his parents, which he told to leave because he knew that they didn't love him. Also among the visitors was the Minister from the Health Clinic. He came by to apologize to Alex for what they caused. "It's wrong because it's like against society. It's wrong because everybody has the right to live and be happy without being tolchoked and knifed." Alex accepted the apology mainly because it was he who volunteered to do the treatment. With no regrets Alex and the Minister, were shown shacking hands and showing signs of friendship. he had found the old woman he began to torture her. Trying to scare the woman he had accidentally killed her. After trying to flee through the front door, His Droogs surprised him and smacked him in the face with a bottle of milk rendering him helpless. This was the turning point of the book in which we see Alex wanted to try and rehabilitate. "We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it have been an evening of small energy expenditure." Obviously this was a "slow" night for them. With the torture of an old man, to the fight, to the rape of a woman in front of her husband, this was for sure getting boring for them. The next level of their criminal actions would be murder. Georgie Boy, who was one of Alex's Droogs, had planned to get rid of Alex and then become the leader. Alex knew however and took care of them so they wouldn't try anything that would cause him to be tossed out. Later on the next night they went out to a house, which was an aerobic school on the outskirts of the city, where a woman of 50 years lived and gave classes. Without success to enter the house, Alex was forced to find an alternate entrance in order to get in. It was too late however, the cops where already on their way because right after Alex's first attempt to enter she called the cops as a security measure. After ! "I was bound up in a straight jacket and my guliver was strapped to a headrest with like wires running away from it. Then they clamped With Alex's entry into prison he was forced to spend his time doing something that would help him rehabilitate. He took to reading the Bible with hope that it would help him get out of prison. One Day while Alex was talking the Chaplain, he asked if there was any other way that he can rehabilitate because he wished to leave the prison and become part of society once again. The Chaplain said, "Seek not to be like evil men. Neither desire to be with them. Because they're minds studyith robberies and their lips speak deceits
Some common words found in the essay are:
Chaplain Seek, Alex's Droogs, Billy Boy, Boy Droogs, Clockwork Orange, Alex's Alex, Alex Hospital, Alex Droogs, Blerp Blerp, Health Clinic, front husband, billy boy, alex droogs, clockwork orange, appeal violence, minister health clinic, it's stinking, stinking world, woman front, alex forced, minister health, woman front husband, it's stinking world,
Approximate Word count = 1725
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
|