Synopsis: Set in the “not so distant future”, A Clockwork Orange follows the story of a juvenile delinquent Alex and his gang of three friends or “droogs”. Alex and his droogs commit heinous crimes after dark. One night, after breaking into an old lady’s house, the police are called and Alex is caught while his droogs escape. In prison, Alex hears of a new experimental program, aversion therapy, known as the Ludovico Technique that the state is going to use on criminals. Going through with this program

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?” (Burgess 95). In A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess suggests that man struggles with choice. Though it is those struggles and choices made from grappling that make man human. Their endeavor to create a right and a wrong is what separates them from animals. Burgess argues that man would no longer be human if their ability to choose is taken

In the novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess explicates a vision of the future where criminals take control of society at night. The novel is narrated by the gang leader, Alex, whose dialect is a Russian and Cockney influenced slang. Cockney is an intricate slang utilized by the working-class Londoners. This ultimately creates an idea of his group’s criminal behavior. Although it is difficult to follow, Burgess incorporated it to make the world these teenagers live in much more believable.

The novel A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, follows the teenage narrator Alex through his years as a wild, violent, and destructive teen to the point in time where he finally decides to grow up. Alex and his group of friends enjoy stealing, bullying, beating, raping, and lying. However, the fun ends when one night Alex takes his enjoyment of beating too far when an old lady decides to fight back. Alex ends up getting arrested and while he is in prison, the old lady dies. He is sentenced

Alex portrays no moral value during the novella, “A Clockwork Orange”. He does however have the choice to change his situation, which is something that Atticus Finch and Thomas More don’t have, because they can’t live with their conscience. The question, “What’s it going to be then, eh?” (Burgess, 2011: 3, 57, 97), is used at the beginning of every part of the novella. This question marks the significance that free will and the ability to choose has in this novella. This question is sometimes asked

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess, printed in 1962. The story takes place in a futuristic society that features a grouping of extreme youth violence. The protagonist Alex narrates the story of his violent acts and his encounter with the authorities trying to reform him from his evil self. However Burgess tries to persuade the reader that Alex is not such a bad person, as he appears to be by hiding a big part of the evidence of his violence through certain techniques. The

which leaves him easily swayed by both his Droogs, the government, and the politicos. F.Alexander In the beginning of the story F.Alexander's wife is raped and murdered by Alex and his droogs. He is an older man and is the writer of a book A Clockwork Orange as seen in the book. Later in the story he returns and feeds on Alex's naivety and uses it for his own gain. He wants to show the

The screenplay was written by Stanley Kubrick and is based on anthony Burgess’s book the clockwork orange.The structure of the film is divided into three different layers.The first layer introduces the audience to Alex and his need for violent debauchery,to a converted brainwashed man,and its ends with the audience asking the question if Alex changed or returned to being violent again.The film mainly relies on narration as it is told through the perspective of Alex.The dialogue is strange as it is