The book "A Clockwork Orange," is a brilliant book in itself. Not expecting it to be a big hit around the world, Burgess created a masterpiece. He does a great job of putting his own opinions in the book as in my opinion creating a character in the book to support his views. I believe that Burgess was the chaplain in the prison. Through this character he was able to express his feelings and still maintain the reactions that a chaplain would. He express's thoughts on the right to have "choice" and how the "state" should act with the law.
Burgess had many good ideas throughout the book such as "violence makes violence." This concept to me means that if I were to kill a man's family in out of rage or just because, he is going to want to get revenge. Violent acts happened all over the scenes in the book where violence made more violence. Such examples of this would be after Alex got out of the old ladies house and dim hit him across the eyes with his chain. After Alex's "droogs" fled the police showed up and began beating Alex even more. This concept even happens during and after Alex's treatment. A guard comes into Alex's room and starts to taunt and hit him and Alex tries to hit him back but is unable do to the treatment.
Burgess seemed to want the state to take control of the violence, but not in a sense where the state was acting worse then the criminals. The way the police treated criminals never seemed to change throughout the book. Even at the end of the book when Alex is taken out in the woods and beaten up by Dim, who is now a man of the law, and another police officer.
When Alex asks the chaplain about the new treatment the chaplain kind of ignores Alex's question. I think this is where we the readers see Burgess come alive in the book. Burgess really expresses his feelings through this character. It seems to be that Burgess in a way has pity for juveniles tried as an adult and sentenced in an adult prison.
A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... "A Clockwork Orange" deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ...
A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... "A Clockwork Orange" deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ...
Among many things A Clockwork Orange deals with, avoidance of bad company is a major theme. ... Another strong theme in A Clockwork orange is the idea of eliminating all laws. ... Quotes such as "treat others as you would like to be treated" play major roles in both the Bible and in A Clockwork Orange. ... Vast differences between the punishment of Jesus" time and the punishments of today can be compared in the movie A Clockwork Orange and the Bible. Alex in A Clockwork Orange was given a relatively light sentence for the crimes he committed. ...
"A Clockwork Orange: Book and Film Comparative Analysis" In 1962, Anthony Burgess' novel "A Clockwork Orange" was published for the first time. ... In 1971, director Stanley Kubrick turned Burgess' book into an even more erotically violent film, "Clockwork Orange". ... Burgess, in his introduction to the 1986 edition, says that, "Nadsat was meant to muffle the raw response we expect from pornography". ...
A Clockwork Orange is a film about a wild and troubled young lad Alex. ... He called the food the unconditioned stimulus and the salivation the unconditioned response. This was unconditioned because salivating was a natural response to the food. ... The bell is a conditioned stimulus and the salivation the conditioned response. ... Instead of reflex responses, operant conditioning rewards or punishes a person for actually doing something. ...
Burgess's definition of moral freedom is the ability to perform both good and evil is presented through the movie A Clockwork Orange. ... As an unforeseen side effect, hearing classical music provokes in Alex the same response as does violence because classical music is on the soundtrack of many of the films he was shown. ...
Anthony Burgess wrote "A clockwork Orange". The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections produces the world of A Clockwork Orange. ... "If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State" Before Alex's character is "rehabilitated" he is one of the most amoral people in the book. ... Alex is therefore forced to feel and think negative responses when shown evil sites or thoughts. ....
The story of A Clockwork Orange takes place in a wretched future of the author's invention, complete with a repressive government, violent street gangs, and a deadening mass culture. ... As an unforeseen side effect, hearing classical music provokes in Alex the same response, as does violence because classical music is on the soundtrack of many of the films he was shown. ...
The student didn't have a response and the professor was happy to have once again proved the Christian faith to be a myth. ... Alex, the primary character in A Clockwork Orange, chooses to rebel against society's beliefs in this code. ... Like in A Clockwork Orange, governments have no respect for low-class citizens, or those who don't abide to the social code. ...
