Choice and free will are necessary to maintain humanity, both individually and communally; without them, man is no longer human but a "clockwork orange," a deterministic mechanism, as demonstrated in Anthony Burgess' novel, A Clockwork Orange. The choice between good and evil is a decision every...

Art vs. Violence in A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel received the New York Film Critics award for the best film of 1971. It was acclaimed as much for its aesthetic qualities as for the moral questions that it raised. Kubrick incorporated music from vario...

Teenage rebellion is concept I am well aquatinted with at the age of sixteen. What is the cause of this desire to free thyself from the grasp of paternal control and the society norm? It is a natural human tendency to commit to the destruction of influence and give birth to natural original thought,...