Violence Makes Violence
This novel is short-only being about 180 pages-but looks maydeceive you, or in other words don't judge a book buy its cover or itsthickness. A Clockwork Orange is actually 360 pages because youhave to read between the lines. You may think that the story's theme isthat the future will be filled with horrible decadent violence (that is whatI first thought), but if you read between the lines you will understandthat this book is written for one main purpose, a purpose other than A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962, story about the future which was meant to be around 1995 to 2000 (a car used in the storycalled a 95' Durango). A boy about seventeen, Alex the narrator andmain character living in London, rampages about with his "droogs"(friends) raping, stealing, beating and even killing people. Alex one dayis caught for murder and jailed but two years later he is luckily freedtwelve years before his sentence ends to take advantage of a newtreatment for violent people like him that he volunteered for. He goesthrough the therapy and succeeds and retur
Second, the theme defines the major conflict of the story. Forexample, when Alex was free to return to his life, his "droogs" betrayhim and beat him up severely in payback for his cruel ruling as leader ofthe team of friends. He is hospitalized and returns to his "ultra-violent"self while the inhumane treatment does not work because it does noteven give people a choice about being violent. This means that the convict has to bestopped and taught a lesson before innocent and peaceful people gethurt. But by doing that with"just" ways. Although theconflict does not have to do with Alex directly, he helps to illustrate it. Henow becomes sick when he is about to commit a violent or sexual, butalso when the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven plays (a minor defectfrom the treatment). The treatment includes long days of watchingviolent movie clips while a patient is hooked up to a lot of hardware. Onething that is important here is that the state does not care about turningthe bad into good, but on cutting down on crime and the only way to dothat is cut down on the number of criminals. Now only the judge has to choose who is good and bad. Brodsky (the man whowill cure him), the governor speaks to Alex. The treatment works because now when a ex-criminal sees or are aboutto commit cruel violent or criminal or sexual acts you become sick andcannot perform the task. This might cause Alex to come back and hurt themagain, which he considers. The governor means that for each action there will be a solution of evenmore violence.
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