Analysis of Clockwork Orange

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The film, "A Clockwork Orange," is, to me, an almost exact replica of today's society. Basically, one kid, who seems to have come from a financially sound home and community, goes through about three stages--1. He violates the laws society has set forth to maintain order. 2. He is caught and punished for his crimes against society. 3. He feels remorse for his violence and sexually deviance (although, at the end of the film, he's back to his old, delinquent self).

The main character, Alex, is shown as a typical juvenile offender. He is shown in such a comparable manner not because all juvenile offenders are out robbing, rapping, and murdering people (although an argument could be made that today's offenders are as bad, if not worse), but because he can do such things and feel no remorse until he is caught. His parents provide for him, but only in a financial light. What good is it if his parents don't get involved in his extracurricular activities. He goes out all night doing wrong, and his parents think he's out working, c'mon!! In today's society, many parents are at the source of why a child may start to commit crimes. They are not involved, or in some cases just don't care enough a

When a 10 year old boy (Robert "yummi" Sandifer, from Atlanta) in a gang is executed by his gang "friends" because he was bringing heat from the cops on the gang because that boy shot a 12 year old girl, it's a sad commentary on society. When there is a lack of social stability in a community, it reflects onto the children who seem to have nothing else to do, or no other way of getting the attention they need.

As a group they were to be feared, but when two of them tried to stand up to Alex, who was the leader, things seemed amusing to me. Of the two who tried to stand up to Alex, there was one obvious leader, while the other was a follower, again. Alex started beating them up, and while this was happening, the fourth of the group got scared and ran. He didn't have a mind of his own to take sides either way, he just did what he was told. This shows me that the people who were following Alex were in obvious need of a role model, or even just a hug. Taking terms from chapter six, Alex was not a democratic leader. Alex did what he wanted and didn't seem to care much about what the group thought.

According to the control theory, deviance results when an individual has weak social bonds to conventional institutions. This was shown in the movie when Alex got out of going to school. His parents were fine with the fact that he had a virus, but just happened to out on the town until the early morning.

The gist of the experiment was this: Alex was given serum and forced to watch violence. Murders and rape were shown to him repeatedly, and by the end of the pillage, he was made to feel violently ill. We, in our society, have something just like this. We have pills people take if they are an alcoholic. If they drink while on this pill, then they are made to feel violently ill. The association between the alcohol and the deathly ill feelin

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