Alex Karev

novel, a clockwork orange, Follows Alex through his misadventures. Alex and his friends are hoodlums who get a kick out of "ultra violence". They drink milk plus drugs to sharpen the experience. Alex goes to jail and when he comes out he finds that his old "droogs" become policemen. Alex goes through being naive to paranoid to completely betrayed changing throughout the book. Something picked up by the book is to pay attention to the people you "know". Alex is naive with his friends, family

comes from many places and details in the work that need delving into in order to solve its true meaning. Notorious director, Stanley Kubrick, makes of Anthony Burgess' most celebrated novel an uncivilized and corrosive morality play. Centering on Alex DeLarge, performed by Malcolm McDowell, who plays a antisocial delinquent. He and his gang of thugs, of whom he calls his "droogs", participate in acts of horrible violence, known as "ultraviolence". In this crime spree they spar, forcibly assault

teenage gang leader, Alex, as he storms through the streets of a “near-future” society with his “Droogs,” or friends. Alex chooses to live a criminal life, until he is arrested by the government and chosen for an experiment that aims to eliminate his violent and aggressive tendencies with a controversial process known as Ludovico’s Technique. After the procedure successfully “cures” Alex, he is released into the streets as a harmless man. Yet, he is also left defenseless and Alex soon becomes victim

Analysis on Alex Besides the protagonist in A Clockwork Orange, who is Alex? Many times we only look at main characters with an outsiders perspective. The characteristics of a character are important, but the main characters are often made to be so much more in the inside by the author. Most simply, from an outward perspective, who is Alex? What shaped Alex to be violent? How might have other characters influenced him to be the leader of a gang? Where did Alex’s actions leave him and did Alex understand

attempt for suicide in A Clockwork Orange, the government composes an article addressing the prevailing success the Ludovico Technique has achieved. The government subsequently restores Alex back to his old self in order to protect itself from blame on his attempted suicide. Knowingly still a threat to the government, Alex is ultimately released back into a society once again as a consequence of the government's inaccuracy and guilt. In an attempt for innovation,

society where extreme violence in youth is common. The novel follows Alex, a teenage protagonist, who narrates the audience through his violent acts. Alex is caught by the state authorities with intent to ‘reform him’. Anthony Burgess engages the audience with his text, through many in depth techniques and themes. Symbolism is displayed in many different situations throughout text, i.e. milk is a reference to the immature mindset of Alex and images of Darkness, night, Lightness and Day. Dehumanization

In Burgess’ text A Clockwork Orange, the story depicts Alex, as the protagonist-narrator, and his “Droogs, in futuristic England, where the state is oppressive and exploitive. The text is widely recognised for its originalities in the language and throughout the text, many themes and symbolic features epitomises the status of Burgess’ efforts. These approaches of literature enhances the engagement and entertainment of the audience. One of the considerable factors of the audience’s engagement is

acts of violence which relates to the acts Alex and his droogs committed in the novel. This is seen when Alex, Pete, Georgie, and Dim break into the Manse and attempt to rob an old woman. They try to walk right in with the guise that they need assistance, but the woman says no which results in Alex breaking in and causing

Clockwork Orange, Alex feels others around him are trying to take away his freedom and control him. Therefore, he commits violent and immoral acts as to him, it is the only choice not controlled by someone else. Burgess even describes the window of a law-abiding citizen to have “iron bars in

possible for a man to be pure evil. Alex is conditioned and unconditioned, and in the end all indications point to a malicious life of crime. He is a clockwork orange, programmed to be subservient to a master, whether it be the Devil, the government, or a group of men. Alex is a windup toy. However, this was not the message Burgess intended to convey. He believes that a clockwork