Alex Proyas

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

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