He was quite happy with this. The next day, before eating he was given a shot that was thought by him to help his appetite. After he finished dining, a man came to his room to wheel him to his daily treatment. He was brought to a large room with a seat in the middle of it, projectors, and a movie screen. He liked all this until he was constrained to the chair by his arms and legs, and with his head fastened so that he could not turn it. After the instruments used to hold his eyelids open were in place, the treatment began. Many short films were then shown to him that contained brutal violence and gore and girls being raped. Normally, he wouldn't have minded all of this, but the shot given to him earlier began to kick in. He began to feel horribly intense pain all over his body the entire time he was made to watch these movies. They even would play Beethoven, Alex's most beloved composer of all time. After having this treatment everyday for a week, he would be released. But not before being shown off publicly as evidence that the treatment worked. At the press conference was the head doctor of the treatments. He called out a big man who walked up to Alex and flicked his nose with his fingernail. "This," says Alex, "caused me to reach for my cut-throat britva." (his knife which was returned to him upon his release). But as Alex thought of the man lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood, the terrible pain welled up inside of him and the only thing to keep the pain away was to not think of violence or harming anyone else. So, trying to escape the pain, he asked if there was anything he could do to help the man. The man made him lick his boots. The point of this "Reclamation Treatment" was that any thought towards violence would cause the subject intense pain, which was, in turn, caused through association with the shots given to him and the things he was made to see while under the influence of the shots.
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? ...
Violence is the universal element in A Clockwork Orange. ... There is not just one function of violence in our lives, just as there is more than one function of violence in A Clockwork Orange. ... Clearly A Clockwork Orange, in comparison to violence of the present day, may be seen as harsh. ... Everything that happens in A Clockwork Orange happens everyday in our society. ... That is what A Clockwork Orange does and why it is perceived as so violent. ...
"A Clockwork Orange" is an anti-utopian novel, describing an imminent future in a stately supervised country. ... "A Clockwork Orange" confronts us with an anonymous, totalitarian country, as well as in "1984". ... But which warning does "A Clockwork Orange" imply? ... Firstly, "A Clockwork Orange" includes a warning against totalitarian state forms. ... In "A Clockwork Orange" the people feels threatened by growing criminality and for that reason elects an authoritarian party. ...
The novels, A Clockwork Orange and 1984 both represent a future dystopia. ... Irony and betrayal are devices used in both, 1984 and A Clockwork Orange. ... In A Clockwork Orange, the Ludvico Technique is used. ... This is similar to the Ludvico method in A Clockwork Orange. ... A Clockwork Orange also includes a warning against a totalitarian state. ...
He will be best remembered by his eighth novella, A Clockwork Orange. ... Burgess also plays with puns throughout A Clockwork Orange in order to add humor to serious situations and dialogues. ... The most principle theme of A Clockwork Orange involves the freedom of a man to choose between good and evil. ... Another very important theme in A Clockwork Orange is that of youth vs. old age. ... That is something that not many writers are able to do, which is why A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books. ...
- the opening line of Anthony Burgess" A Clockwork Orange, being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven. ... Burgess skilfully introduces us to his futuristic slang, or nadsat, making A Clockwork Orange valuable not only for the questions it raises, but also for its creative and experimental use of the English language in which we see hints of Russian. ...
Classical Conditioning in "A Clockwork Orange" The movie "A Clockwork Orange" is often described as one of the most disturbing films ever made. My question is what really disturbs them so much about this film, Is it the gratuitous sex and violence transparent throughout most of the film? Or is it...
An orange is ripe or not. ... There is a great use of orange and red in the set, perhaps used to represent the orange which can not be fixed. ... The title has two primary meanings: first, the basic meaning of the Cockney expression (not an example of rhyming slang, incidentally) "as queer as a clockwork orange", something that on the surface was normal, but inside was artificial and unnatural. ... This particular clockwork orange is human on the surface, but inside is no such thing. ... An orange cannot be "repaired!" ...
When Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange, John Anthony Burgess Wilson created his own world set in London during a future time when gangs and violence are rampant on the streets, "which is his own particular vision of horrors yet to come." ... This particular brand of literature stressed the overly pessimistic view of human nature and featured, as was presented in A Clockwork Orange, violence as well as the dark areas of human behavior and society. ...
