Analysis Of The Movie The Same Title By Anthony Burgess

Stanley Kubrick released a film adaptation of the successful book of the same title by Anthony Burgess in 1971. The very opening of the film sets the tone for the rest of the movie. The movie opens in a bar where milk is served with drugs in it, and the general setting of the bar is very raunchy with sexual sculptures composing the furniture of the establishment. These aspects all set up a general theme of social decay that accompanies the rest of the film. Within the first ten minutes our drugged up protagonist followed by his fellow hoodlums have begun terrorizing other people as well as gangs. What makes â€Å"A Clockwork Orange† so complex is that it fails to establish a clear good side within its world. Alex Delarge, the main protagonist, is captured for his crimes after a betrayal and is sentenced to prison. He participates in a government sponsored program to be released early on the grounds that he completes the rehabilitation process. The method utilized is seen as in humane as we realize that it effectively strips the prisoner of their personal freedom to choose between right and wrong. Alex literally becomes ill at the sight of violence and can’t choose anything but to be passive lest he should become sick. The film becomes a slippery slope of what lengths will we go to in relinquishing our freedoms to be safe. There’s the moral dilemma present that Alex’s former victims turn and beat him savagely upon encountering him again. The society present in the movie is seenShow MoreRelatedEssay on The Need for Brutality in A Clockwork Orange 4668 Words   |  19 Pages   Ã‚  Ã‚   Burgess A Clockwork Orange, a critically acclaimed masterstroke on the horrors of conditioning, is unfairly attacked for apparently gratuitous violence while it merely uses brutality, as well as linguistics and a contentious dà ©nouement, as a vehicle for deeper themes. Although attacks on A Clockwork Orange are often unwarranted, it is fatuous to defend the novel as nonviolent; in lurid content, its opening chapters are trumped only by wanton killfests like Natural Born Killers. BurgessRead MoreEssay about Analysis of A Clockwork Orange2423 Words   |  10 PagesAnalysis and Interpretation of A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, is one of the most experimental, original, and controversial novels of the twentieth century. It is both a compelling work of literature and an in-depth study in linguistics. The novel is a satirical, frightening science fiction piece, not unlike others of this century such as George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxleys Brave New World. However, the conflicts and resolutions in A ClockworkRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesCataloging-in-Publication Data Robbins, Stephen P. Organizational behavior / Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge. — 15th ed. p. cm. Includes indexes. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-283487-2 ISBN-10: 0-13-283487-1 1. Organizational behavior. I. Judge, Tim. II. Title. HD58.7.R62 2012 658.3—dc23 2011038674 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 10: 0-13-283487-1 ISBN 13: 978-0-13-283487-2 Brief Contents Preface xxii 1 2 Introduction 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? 3 The Individual 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Diversity