A Clockwork Orange (Term Paper)
A Clockwork Orange is a controversial work in which the setting is in a futuristic society in which, political powers have subsided and lawlessness, violence, and youth gangs terrorize the people. Free will is the cost that Alex De Large has to pay in a society that is so dominated by violence. Anthony Burgess, in his novel A Clockwork Orange, contends that unless man freely chooses to reject the attraction of violence, rehabilitation and conditioning only works if man's free will is destroyed.At one point or another a person has experienced the appeal of violence. Violence has its ways to make people want more, similar to an adrenalin rush. Alex, who is the narrator, tells the story through the first person point of view. Alex and his Droogs (followers) experience violence on a nightly basis. On one particular night Alex and his Droogs were walking along when they saw a drunken old man who asked them for a quarter. "One thing I could never stand is to see a filthy old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going Blerp Blerp in between, as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts." At this point they started to beat the old man fiercely with no regret for th
"The process in which Alex needed to take to become a free man once again took much out of him. It's wrong because everybody has the right to live and be happy without being tolchoked and knifed. The Chaplain said, "Seek not to be like evil men. " Both are similar but the experience caused him to give up the one thing that was most dear to him. With Alex's entry into prison he was forced to spend his time doing something that would help him rehabilitate. "Our subject is impelled toward the good by paradoxically being impelled toward evil. In other words no one can escape from violence we all have our moments when violence gets the better half of us. It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you've done. After he was certified, and was told that he may leave when ever he wishes Alex was then faced with a conflict greater then any man has known. Then they clamped like lidlocks on my eyes so that I could not shut them no matter how hard I tried. After being disowned by his parent because of Joe, the man who rented out Alex's room, Alex was forced to wander around. Without success to enter the house, Alex was forced to find an alternate entrance in order to get in. Also among the visitors was the Minister from the Health Clinic. The only way to rehabilitate someone is by achieving mental stability within that person, not through drugs and physical distress. After managing to gain enough strength to walk.
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