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…A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange is one of the most controversial movies ever made. The movie is based around a thug named Alex, a teenager, who finds happiness in about any perverse action. Alex, who seems to find glory in rape, lust…

…Summary of “ A Clockwork Orange “ The story of A Clockwork Orange takes place in a future that the author created, complete with a repressive government, violent street gangs, and a deadening mass culture. The narrator is Alex, who tells his story…

…eventually prevails. The first scene of Clockwork Orange opens with a extreme close up of Alex’s face, his head slightly tilted downward and his eyes looking directly into the camera. The viewer is confronted with a long, silent eye contact that becomes awkward…

…A Clockwork Orange is largely a parable about free will. Ludovico's Technique is a scientific method for taking moral choice away from troublesome criminals. After being conditioned, the person subjected to this treatment feels intense pain and nausea…

…sick when he hears classical music, which was featured in the films for intensity. Alex is released after his treatment as a perfect Clockwork Orange. (Basically a living thing which has been turned into something mechanical. Obviously not a natural thing…

…A Clockwork Orange is the story of a young teenage hooligan, Alex DeLarge, who with the company of his accomplices commit, repeated homicides and rapes at night. They break into homes of innocent people and commit crimes dressed like…

…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." (Olsen…

…A Clockwork Orange The 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…

…“A Clockwork Orange (1971) is producer/director Stanley Kubrick’s randomly ultra-violent, over-indulgent, graphic film of the near future- a horrifying, gaudy film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel of the same name” (tdirks@filmsite.org…

…, as well as challenged me to understand the author’s futuristic slang language and dialogue in the story. Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange serves us as a graphic reminder of the negative aspects of the human spirit, and the resulting repercussions…