Alex Pettyfer

Alex loses his sense of purpose, and becomes a machine that is fed instructions from The State. Humans are able to make their own decisions and Alex is not. Alex refers to himself as a clockwork orange because he believes he is only a clockwork toy to be wound up and controlled.  Man is defined by his actions, and Alex cannot decide his own actions so he ceases to be a man. A man that cannot choose is actions is the same as a man that does wrong because once Alex’s free will is restored Alex commits

Anthony Burgess’ 1963 novel A Clockwork Orange, orbits around a extremely dynamic character that goes by simply, Alex. Alex does have three other droogs that he drags along with him, “Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim” (Burgess 3). Burgess brilliant mind drags the reader in by starting the novel at The Korova Milkbar, which is a mesto, place, where Alex and his droogs drink some milk with a little surprise of liquor in their beverages. Later they end up leaving the Milkbar, while they

A Clockwork Orange Analysis Paper In the movie A Clockwork Orange, the main character Alex is a deviant adolescent who commits many violent and sexual atrocities and is eventually jailed for them. While in jail, Alex is given the opportunity to shorten his sentence if he would participate in an experiment. This experiment actually involved the Ludovico Technique, a form of aversion therapy where the participator watches film of his antisocial behavior and presumably enjoys it, but afterwards is

Real Horror-show Violence “What’s it going to be then, eh?” (Burgess 3). The question asked by Alex, the protagonist, that inevitably leads to violence and shenanigans with his three “droogs” in A Clockwork Orange. He and his friends are the epitome of reckless teenagers; they steal, break into homes, and rob innocent civilians on the street. Throughout the book, the reader will come across many unrecognizable slang words spoken mainly by adolescents that only one familiar with “Nadsat” would

from 10-20 get framed for murder, but some of these kids have not committed murder. These kids get thrown in a prison called the furnace with no way to escape. The main character Alex gets framed for murdering his best friend even know he didn’t murder him he gets tried and thrown in the furnace for a life sentence. Alex and his friends Zee, and Donavan hack up a plan to escape the furnaces by blowing up room two. Room Two is an old mining room use to keep the prisoners working but, unfortunately

Point #1 In both novels American Psycho and A Clockwork Orange, society creates monsters by manipulating and taking away free will from the protagonists Patrick Bateman and Alex. This may be in different ways but essentially both are separated away from what seems to be the norm and are mentally segregated from human connection. One way in which this can be seen in American Psycho is by isolating Patrick Bateman, a high class, wealthy Manhattan businessman, from the ordinary. There are several

the standards of proper moral conscience and mental health begin to change. Alex, the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange, is a person who by modern ethical standards is a psychopath with no moral conscience.The lack of proper authority in the future version of England presented in A Clockwork Orange allows for the prevalence of pseudo-families that act as the main influences on the lifestyles of teenagers such as Alex. Alex explains within the first page of the novel how he and his “three droogs” spent

themselves the targets of violent crime. Among these gangsters is fifteen year old Alex and his band of “droogs.” Alex and his gang of troublemakers spend their days robbing and beating up innocent men and women they encounter, all while assuming they are invincible to the consequences that could come. However, Alex’s actions catch up with him one day when he is imprisoned for assaulting a woman. While incarcerated, Alex is the test subject of an experiment intended to revoke his love of violence. The

young man named Alex and his gang that just go around committing one crime after the other in their community. Alex later on in the story got set up by his gang members and got arrested for all the crimes that he committed including killing people. Alex was then sentenced to fourteen years in prison and during his time in prison; Alex got recruited for an experiment that the government is working on to be the first prisoner to take part in this experiment. At the end of it all, Alex went through the

fatuous to defend the novel as nonviolent; in lurid content, its opening chapters are trumped only by wanton killfests like Natural Born Killers. Burgess' Ted Bundy, a teenage Lucifer named Alex, is a far cry from the typical, spray paint-wielding juvenile delinquent. With his band of "droogs," or friends, Alex goes on a rampage of sadistic rape and "ultraviolence." As the tale unfolds, the