Alex Pettyfer

that was beginning to emerge in the early 1960s. The novel follows Alex, a young hoodlum who is arrested for his violent acts towards the citizens of London. While incarcerated, Alex undergoes a technique in which his free will towards acts of a barbaric - or even harmless - nature is taken from him, then is forced to face the world once more as a machine-like

Throughout time, works of literature have often carried messages of great social importance. It is essential to understand these significant themes and agendas in order to understand the basis of the novels. Throughout The Prophet’s Hair by Salman Rushdie, War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, there is much evidence supporting the idea of social or political ‘warnings,’ one could argue, about the functionality of society and those who govern said societies.

Complex Communication Where humans are today is an absolute miracle significantly due to the process of collective learning. Collective learning is how individuals learned to do many fundamental tasks and how various cultures in the world developed. Early evidence of collective learning was found by archaeologists when they discovered human skulls that dated back about 200,000 years ago. These skulls had a more flexible jaw allowing those early humans to speak vocally. (Early Evidence of Collective

In Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange, Alex the narrator grows up in a near future English city that develops his inner moral disconnect and sociopathic tendencies. These characteristics mirror and grow from the corruption of his city, originating with its lack of resources and culminating in the great cultural divide between teenagers and adults, emphasizing the importance of perspective in decision making and acting. In Alex’s city, adequate education is near nonexistent and crime

In the story a Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; the authors point of view is focused to the devotion of free will. A Clockwork Orange means what happens when someone has had their free will taken away from them. In this case, Alex the protagonist can be described as a violent, psychotic criminal, and the idea of treating him so that he may no longer be able to commit crimes that may seem to be justified. “ What is happening to you now is what should happen to any normal healthy human organism

Scorsese’s 1976 crime film, Taxi Driver, both deal with the questions of crime and free will and how social interactions influence a persons behavior and opinions on crime and free will. The two main characters of both films start a two different ends. Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange is a young criminal out of many plaguing his society. Where as Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver is recently discharged out of the military and is looking for a connection with good people and a way out of the plagued society

novel, Alex decides to break into an elderly lady’s’ house with intentions of raping her and stealing her most valuable possession’s. This here allows the reader to infer that the theme of the story consists of the fact that uncontrolled individual power can become overwhelming and can get out of hand very quickly. This specific event soon turns in the opposite direction concluding in Alex being recklessly abused in the police station by the police officers. A plot twist soon occurs with Alex getting

does Stanley Kubrick create reference to the duality of ‘the fool’? A Clockwork Orange (1971) is one of Stanley Kubrick more notable endeavours, based on Anthony Burgess’ novel. Both film and book depict the simultaneous humanity and inhumanity of Alex and his ‘droogs’. This duality is key to my interpretation of these characters as representative of ‘the fool’. Here, ‘the fool’ is derivative of the Commedia Dell’arte Harlequin character, ‘[a] chameleon which takes on every colour’, and its reincarnation

Introduction A Clockwork Orange and 1984 are books with Non-traditional language use to affect the reader in some way. A Clockwork Orange was written by Anthony Burgess and follows the teenage life of Alex and his ultraviolent hobbies and run-ins with the law. 1984 was written by George Orwell with a controlling government as the main premise. The languages used in the books are both based on English but are vastly different from each other. Form In A Clockwork Orange, the language is called Nadsat

of the shocking growth of a violent and destructive youth culture. The novel is divided into three parts. In the first section you are following the protagonist Alex and his "gang", who all lack a complete sense of morality, through a first person narrative. As section two commences, we transition into the "Ludovico" technique used on Alex by the government in an attempts to brainwash him into being a "model citizen". Effectively, this denies him the opportunity to be a "moral agent" and freely have