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...

The human spirit can take two forms, that of evil or that of good. The novella, A Clockwork Orange, is a look into the depths of the human soul and analyzes how these different types of spirits react in society. While the novel was written as a satire, thus making it completely overblown in a certai...

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,...