Alex Pettyfer

belonging, as it restrains our freedom and forces us to only mimic. My studied texts show how society demands us to conform, yet conformity prevents a sense of true identity being ever created. This notion is elaborated in the novel, A Clockwork Orange. Alex is a criminal who doesn’t belong anywhere within society. In the novel, the government attempts to suppress his criminality by physically preventing him from thinking of violence—thus making him conform to their standards. This is a prime example of

it is bizarre internally, but appears natural on the surface. The story begins with the protagonist and narrator Alex a 15-year-old boy, who sets the bar for the most cold-blooded and callous characters of literature. His droogs, Pete, Georgie and Dim, who was really dim, would spend their time in the Korova Milkbar drinking drug laced milk. After a good drink of the milk-plus mesto, Alex and his three droogs were ready to commit the good old

A difference and slight similarity between Kubrick’s Film and Burgess’ novella is the narration. In both, Alex is the narrator and uses Nadsat vocabulary to describe his acts of violence, however, the film narrative is perceived as less powerful as the novella. In the book, Alex’s narration accentuates his cruelty, pleasure, and lack of remorse. His pleasure is highlighted in the book displaying his dark thoughts, making the novella A Clockwork Orange appear to be a more grotesque piece in language

The grace of evil in A Clockwork Orange is a recurring paradox throughout the novel and also implies a deep religious connotation. The main foci are the several aspects of evil, violence, and sexual acts committed by Alex and his gang members. However, Anthony Burgess has cleverly incorporated similar paradoxes to that of grace and evil, along with a different dialect to aid in masking the true harshness that lies underneath the violence. The other paradoxes include the extremes of night and day

characteristic, the sci-fi novel, he has created an aspect of what he chose to observe: Rebellion. Our hero, Alex, begins the novel by explaining his mischeviouse exploits in a manner not far from nostalgia, that is tainted with a bit of sarcasm for any bleeding-heart pity one might feel for his victims, as when he recalls his own realization of the importance of the term, "A Clockwork Orange." Alex says of the author and his wife that he "would like to have

the novel that the police even consider such brutality to be fun. When Alex is taken into custody, he refuses to speak until he has a lawyer. He knows the law, he says. The head policeman replies, “…we know the law too, but that…isn’t everything.” He then proceeds to punch Alex in the stomach as the other policemen “laugh their gullivers off.” One cannot help but to compare the brutality of Alex to that of the policemen. Alex is an adolescent, yet the people put in place to control him exhibit the

orange," a mechanism designed by a exterior force that is disguised in human flesh. Free will is a necessity for human life but it becomes a problem when we extend that power to the community as a whole as we can see in the novel. This is proven when Alexs commits his several acts of unprovoked violence. A philosopher named John Stuart Mill termed the "harm principle," .The harm principle is any action is permissible so long as it does not harm

Orange Research Paper The Clockwork Orange unfolds in the streets of a dark, mysterious, futuristic city. Alex, the 15 year old leader of a violent gang that goes on a rampage involving: mugging, a convenience store robbery, a rival gang fight, grand theft auto, gang rapes, vandalism, and arson. Alex who entice himself with all these violent acts eventually gets jailed for his crimes. Alex will undergo in a "reform" treatment called Ludovico's Technique. A behavioral-brainwashing procedure involving

same name that was written by Anthony Burgess in 1963. The story begins with the main character, Alex narrating while he and his fellow gang members Georgie, Dim and Pete sit in the Korova Milk Bar discussing what violent acts they will be part of that night. The drink of choice is milk that is laced with drugs that is dispensed from the breast of nude statues of women that adorn the bar. After Alex and his gang leave the Korova, they go on a crime spree that includes mugging, robbery, a gang fight

useless and the gangs come out at night. Alex and his droogs are one of these gangs. They spend their nights drinking drug laced milk, getting into gang wars, and committing some good old rape and ultra-violence. Tension arises between the group which leads to Alex getting arrested. While imprisoned, he is introduced to a new rehabilitation technique sponsored by the government that promises to cure him of his violent nature. But it proves to be much worse than Alex anticipated, as just the mere thought