Genre: Novel Author: Anthony Burgess Setting: Alex home/room. Time: Futuristic Language: His language reveals his age, there is no doubt that he is a teenager. He has made up a lot of words himself. Narrator/Main charachter: Alex, fifteen-year old boy, First person narrator. This way we get to read what Alex feels and thinks. He ditches school. Fallible or infallible?: Betyder: Fejbarlig og infejlbarlig. Is he trustworthy/reliable or not? Most of the short stories we read, has
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older and his life changes. Part one, Alex is a troubled teen causing ciaos in his town with his goons, known as “Droogs”. They are a menace to society and satisfaction is brought to them by fighting, using drugs, and violating women. Part two differs from part one because one saw Alex incarcerated which causing a violent change to him because he is the first to be tested in a new treatment to change his lawless behaviors. Lastly, in part three a new side of Alex presents itself. He shows emotion unlike
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communism (a prevalent issue of the time), given the novel’s extremely negative portrayal of a government that seeks to solve social problems by removing freedom of choice. The novel is comprised of the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent named Alex who, in place of jail-time, voluntarily undergoes state-supported psychological rehabilitation for his evil behavior that will brainwash him into being physically sick if he even thinks about committing a crime. “You are to be made into a good boy
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book. But the book... always read the book first ;) Next up is a classic disturbing book! A Clockwork Orange has Alex, who is one of the most memorable characters ever. He will forever be stuck in my mind. Such a well-structured and engaging story! I do have to admit though that there's something extra special and extra disturbing about the movie adaptation. The actor that plays Alex just truly captures everything about the character, and I love everything about the movie. Such a classic film, and
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By Brett Nims Summary A Clockwork Orange is a film about a young adult man, Alex DeLarge. Alex leads a gang of other young adult men in London. The gang goes around the city and commits terrible acts of violence and sexual crimes with no remorse. Alex and his gang of droogs attack an old homeless man, drive dangerously through the country side, and attack an old man and his wife at their home. One night, Alex and his gang break into a woman’s house and he attacks her with a statue. He tries
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While watching the film Eight Days, produced by Jaco Booyens, my perspective on life forever changed. Eight Days is a documentary about Amber, a teenage girl who sneaks out to attend a party with her friends, she is given alcohol and is kidnapped, raped and is forced into the world of human sex trafficking. Amber finds herself in the middle of a human sex trafficking business for eight perplexing days. Jaco Booyens film brings to light the many horrific unknown parts to the human sex trafficking
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• Level 2: Conventional Reasoning; Stage 4: Social System Morality o Alex is in this level of moral development because he says it wasn’t okay to steal the drugs for the man’s dying wife. He believes it is not okay to disobey the law under any circumstances. Even though the wife was very sick and needed the medicine to survive, it was still not okay. o Alex answers the question by saying no it was not okay for the man to steal the drugs and that he should’ve found another alternative way by raising
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an individual's right to choose is robbed for the good of society. The first and last chapters place Alex in more or less the same physical situation but his ability to exercise free will leads him to diametrically opposite choicesgood versus evil. The phrase, "what's it going to be then, eh?," echoes throughout the book; only at the end of the novel is the moral metamorphosis complete and Alex is finally able to answer the question, and by doing so affirms his freedom of choice. The capacity to
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feel a sense of bitterness and rage towards Alexs’ character and the lack of empathy is continued on throughout the film, even when his violent fits are put to a stop. Although you would not assume that the government would play a major role in a movie such as A Clockwork Orange, the officials of the London dystopia prove themselves as pure evil and some of their actions even leave you feeling a bit of sympathy for the young boy, Alex. As the crimes that Alex had been committing grew more severe, he
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last chapter, Alex regains the ability to choose yet quickly rediscovers the joy in violence and illicit activities. The final chapter makes it possible for audiences to see that Alex is perhaps capable of changing his values by his own means—one day, after getting bored with the violence he and his new gang participate in, he wanders into a bar to be shocked by the news that one of his old friends is now married with children. This shock manifests itself into admiration and envy: Alex begins to imagine
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