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Clockwork Orange First Chapter
1,310 wordsA Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, is a dark look into a frightful future of violence and social control. The story dives deep into such issues as free will, the illusions of reality, the morality of ethics, and many others. Burgess fills this horrific tale with satire, numerous puns, and above all: irony. A Clockwork Orange is comparable to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Burgess presents us with a philosophical message that we may soon find ourselv...
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Clockwork Orange Roman Catholic
1,343 words... e (Burgess, Clockwork 15). In the movie version of A Clockwork Orange, this scene shows the rape being committed on an actual stage. An example of a rather bizarre simile can also be found in chapter one with Alex's, .".. there I was dancing about with my briton like I might be a barber on board a ship on a very rough sea, trying to get in at him with a few fair slashes on his unclean oily list" The mechanics of A Clockwork Orange exist to emphasize its tone, which is one of informality, out...
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Freedom Of Choice Anthony Burgess
820 wordsAnthony Burgess's View That a Lack of Free Choice is Spiritually Condemning as Evident In all of my reading, I have come to the conclusion that Anthony Burgess is the greatest literary genius of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange, is unrivaled in depth, insight, and innovation. The novel is a work of such quality, such perfection, that it seems to be written by a literary demigod. The novel's main theme deals with free choice and spiritual freedom. More specifically, "[Th...
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Clockwork Orange Ultra Violent
1,460 words... ck work Orange. The boys thought it was an odd title and Alex started to really beat the man, he beat him until he was bloody and lifeless. This time his friends thought that he had gone too far and betrays him by telling the police. Alex is convicted of murder and sentenced to fourteen years in prison at the age of only fifteen years old. He goes to jail and still goes about his violent ways, and eventually kills another prisoner. After this he is chosen as a subject for a new experimental ...
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Chelsea House Publishers Loathing In Las Vegas
2,986 words... you see that Alex is not content to have control over his own life but he must have authority over others. He beats his "drugs" into submission and makes himself once more dictator over his small dominion. A key to his behavior is found in his name. Alex is named after Alexander the Great, the famous general who conquered the world but took his greatest solace in intellectual pursuits such as philosophy, which he was trained in by Aristotle. The name Alex, means, depending on which source on...
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Rape Victim Thirty Minutes
1,548 wordsI take a look through the bars at the last sights of a world that has gone very wrong for me. Can it be theres some sort of error? Its hard to stop the surmounting terror. Is it really the end, not some crazy dream? Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming. It's not so easy to stop from screaming, but words escape me when I try to speak. Tears, they flow, but why am I crying? I don't believe that there is never an end to the nightmare. Humans never stop to think what the consequences of our beh...
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2002 A Href Acts Of Violence
1,578 wordsMoral freedom is one of the most if not the most important of any freedoms available to humans. Moral freedom is the ability to either choose to perform good or bad deeds or both. Totalitarian governments take away ones individual choice and thus, suppress and suffocate the soul. The setting in A Clockwork Orange is a general parallax to a totalitarian and oppressive government. Alex, the main character, is the representative of the common man, and his struggle in this type of government. In the...
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Year Old Girl Death Of His Wife
1,850 wordsA memory of sadness and pain always remains in ones mind longer than one of happiness. These negative memories will resurface each time people are reminded of them, and will cause them to act differently in situations then they would have if these past, negative experiences had not taken place. In the novel, Along Came a Spider by James Patterson, the negative experiences that the characters have been put through affect their emotions, feelings, and decisions throughout the rest of their lives. ...
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Stanley Kubrick Clockwork Orange
1,117 wordsSinging in the rain, I'm singing in the rain. " As this vivacious song disappears into the terror of the night, the emergence of one of the greatest novels and movies, A Clockwork Orange, begins to take shape. Anthony Burgess's contemporary novel, A Clockwork Orange, and Stanley Kubrick's outstanding movie, "A Clockwork Orange, " (Based upon the novel) have many important similarities and differences, which aid in confirming A Clockwork Orange as one of the most terrifying yet extraordinary piec...
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A Clockwork Orange Teenagers Have Free Will
1,127 wordsThe process of growing older is accompanied by many serious moral questions that demand mature decisions. It is free will and the capability to make choices that make us human, and it is the harnessing of these two things that ultimately separate the adults from the children. In Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange, Alex, the protagonist and narrator, tells the story of how he went from being a violent leader of a gang to a boy without the physical ability to commit an evil action. It is th...
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Back To The Hotel Small Boat
945 wordsIt all started when two people, Alex and Marie Davenport where on vacation celebrating their anniversary in Paris, Nice. They were in a small boat that Alex was rowing, they stopped in the middle of the lake and Alex decided to jump out and go for a swim. He was splashing Marie and telling her to come in, but she refused to and told him to come back into the boat. Then without knowing a man on a ski-do with his young son came by, not seeing Alex in the water hit him without knowing and crashed i...
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Siamese Cat Alex Time
758 wordsOver the past year or so I have begun to analyze certain things that pertain to my life from a more realistic perspective. One thing in particular has noticeably affected me. My fourteen-year-old cat Alex, about 81 years of age in human terms hasnt that much time left on this planet. My first real friendship and also the longest friendship Ive ever had will come to a close eventually. He is my pet, but I cherish him like a brother and even a son. I feel as if Ive grown up a lot while wrestling w...
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Good Or Evil Order To Create
1,732 wordsThe freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "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 color and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State" (Burgess ix). Burgess expresses t...
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Day Of School Three Words
1,583 wordsI've learned that the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon. It certainly is the truth. We were the bagel shop groupies as you would call us. More personally his bagel shop groupies practically there every day. Sue, Paulina, Gentile, Jessica, Phil, Ryan, Steve, Kevin, Nick, Glen, Ruben, and myself. The list could go on for hours on end but I have neither the time nor the heart to go on. So as I was saying we were there almost everyday, and at the start of each day he was...
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Clockwork Orange Suicide Attempt
1,690 wordsA Comparison of Jack and Alex The thoughts and actions of Alex in the novel, A Clockwork Orange are both alike and different from the character Jack in Lord of he Flies. Alex a young man at the age of fifteen is a bane on society. Rape, violence, and Beethoven are his main joys. Jack is a choirboy on a deserted island. Jack's world, before arrival on the island, consisted of a ' voluntary adherence to a pragmatic pact of nonaggression& # 8230; which passes for civilization, but maintained on...
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Ability To Choose Clockwork Orange
1,762 wordsA Literary Comparison Of A Clockwork Orange and The Crucible The existence of evil in the world is a universal question that is often contemplated. Anthony Burgess and Arthur Miller in their novels A Clockwork Orange and The Crucible address this question of evil. One of these stories is set in the future, and the other in the past confirming the belief that the human struggle between good and evil is timeless and applies to every person in society. Throughout history numerous examples of leader...
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Full Metal Jacket Eyes Wide Shut
3,514 wordsDarth Vader of Modern Film: Stanley Kubrick and His Aesthetically Beautiful Ultra-Violence To the creator of films as well as other forms of literature, the dark side of human nature has often proved more rich and interesting than the bright. Films and books on the lives of saints have not been as popular as murder mysteries and works of horror. While we may have no desire to experience them in our own lives, terrible deeds and evil people exert their perverse attraction on our psyches. We who c...
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Shot Lao Xu Xin Hua Friends Alex
451 wordsPer. Forbidden City Phan, Nam Per. 5 English Book Report Title: The Forbidden City Author: William Bell Ted and Alex Jackson had to go to Beijing to report a story. When Alex and Ted arrived at the capital city they met a guide named Lao-Xu, who directed them to the Beijing Hotel. At the hotel, Ted and Alex meet Eddie Norman. Eddie is the reporter that Ted would be working with. After settling into the routine of the hotel, Alex began observing Tian An Men square, and interviewing some of the st...
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Ability To Choose Clockwork Orange
1,764 wordsLiterary Comparison Of A Clockwork Orange And Literary Comparison Of A Clockwork Orange And The Crucible A Literary Comparison Of A Clockwork Orange and The Crucible The existence of evil in the world is a universal question that is often contemplated. Anthony Burgess and Arthur Miller in their novels A Clockwork Orange and The Crucible address this question of evil. One of these stories is set in the future, and the other in the past confirming the belief that the human struggle between good an...
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Year Old Boy Wasn T
709 wordsAuthor: Still Missing Still Missing Author: Beth Gutcheon The Setting of the novel takes place in Boston, Back Bay on Sixty-three Fremont Street The characters are Susan Selky, Alexander s mother and a psychiatrist, Alexander Graham Selky Jr, a 6 year old boy, the son of Susan Selky, Graham Selky, the father of Alex, and the ex-husband of Susan, Jocelyn, Susan s best friend who s little daughter Justine go to school with Alex, Detective Al Menetti, the detective who help investigates the missing...
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