Antisocial Personality Disorder in A Clockwork Orange. Clockwork orange is a dystopian movie revolving around Alex, the main character and also the narrator. The movie starts with Alex and his group beating up an old man because they disliked how he sound while singing. As the movie progresses on you see a couple more scenes of violence. A particulary important scene is when Alex and his drooges invaded the Author's house and raped his wife. It's clear that Alex enjoys causing distress in other people but he also has a problem. While Alex is the leader of the group, has trouble listening to his friend's suggestions and after a brutal mishap during one of their “horrorshows”, where Alex accidentally killed a woman, he got set up by his friends
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One of the key characteristics of ASPD, as listed in the DSM-5, is a disregard for violence and other people's feelings, usually emanating before the age of 15. We see countless examples of this as Alex, who is at the time fifteen years old, is shown assaulting many people with his gang including the homeless and the elderly. Another example of this can be seen when he viciously attack two members of his own gang when he began to feel that his leadership was being questioned. This is an example of Alex's intense ego-centrism, showing that he feels the need to be the leader and the man in charge at all …show more content…
The truth of the matter is that you generally have to be eighteen to get diagnosed with Antisocial personality disorder. This is because an adolescent mind is not fully developed and can change drastically from a day to day basis. Alex, however, has enough of the other symptoms to be labeled as someone with antisocial personality disorder, and in fact with all of the symptoms together, it can be said that is very likely that Alex has Antisocial personality disorder. After reviewing the movie and reading up on the subject, the question that I am left with is that why do people with ASPD disorder have a problem with connecting to people and feeling certain emotions that we classify as normal, and how is it that they can get attached to inanimate things?For example, in the movie Alex can show love and attachment for Beethoven; more specifically his symphony 9, and it was obvious that during the treatment, the fact that they used his favourite song distressed him the
One of the key characteristics of ASPD, as listed in the DSM-5, is a disregard for violence and other people's feelings, usually emanating before the age of 15. We see countless examples of this as Alex, who is at the time fifteen years old, is shown assaulting many people with his gang including the homeless and the elderly. Another example of this can be seen when he viciously attack two members of his own gang when he began to feel that his leadership was being questioned. This is an example of Alex's intense ego-centrism, showing that he feels the need to be the leader and the man in charge at all …show more content…
The truth of the matter is that you generally have to be eighteen to get diagnosed with Antisocial personality disorder. This is because an adolescent mind is not fully developed and can change drastically from a day to day basis. Alex, however, has enough of the other symptoms to be labeled as someone with antisocial personality disorder, and in fact with all of the symptoms together, it can be said that is very likely that Alex has Antisocial personality disorder. After reviewing the movie and reading up on the subject, the question that I am left with is that why do people with ASPD disorder have a problem with connecting to people and feeling certain emotions that we classify as normal, and how is it that they can get attached to inanimate things?For example, in the movie Alex can show love and attachment for Beethoven; more specifically his symphony 9, and it was obvious that during the treatment, the fact that they used his favourite song distressed him the