Everyone believes that their government is going to help them when they are in need of help but what if your government was the opposite and they didn’t help but oppress everyone in their society. In a dystopian society an anti hero comes to the rescue. An anti hero in a dystopian society will see the wrong in their society and tries to change the way their society is run. However, anti-hero does not usually display the characteristics of a classic hero which makes them different from a classical hero. The government in a dystopian society is like a superego. The superego is the ethical part of a person’s personality that deals with criticisms, prohibitions, and inhibitions which forms a person's conscience. The superego in a dystopian
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The government that should be helping them is either corrupted or just plain evil, both characters faced a corrupted government that was suppose to help them but didn’t. Alex the main character from the story A Clockwork Orange faced a corrupted government the government in the story A Clockwork Orange did not care for its because F. Alexander said “I think you can help dislodge this unbearing government to turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government sure that boasts of its repressiveness.”(3.1.21) the person talking is trying to show how the government is happy that they did something which they believe is going to benefit society but really it isn’t they just forcing someone to act they want them to because they know he doesn’t have the freedom anymore to act the way he is suppose but act to please society. Sydney “Syd” Carton faces a corrupted government through his society they didn’t care for their people and Syd didn’t really care for that. In the society Syd lived in there was a system called Patrons and Proxies there was no in between “But that was the system. …show more content…
However in a dystopian world there is the lack of personal anatomy which means whatever the anti hero does will not have only a personal affect but it would have an effect on everyone around them. In Sydney’s dystopian society Sydney’s life changed once his patron named Knox got into a car accident his life changed completely. Sydney finally realized that “Some things are more important than any one person” (London 204) when Sydney learned this through his journey as an anti hero it changed his life. It made him realize that the journey ahead of him is going to be a long and hard one but it is going to make a difference in his society and community. Alex also faces the same adversities as Sydney however their stories are different in their own way. Alex was used as a lab rat for the government. He was their first tester of their new creation the Ludovico technique. The government didn’t really care who the technique would affect Dr. Brodsky said “we are not concerned with motive with the higher ethics we are concerned only with cutting down crime.” (2.7.13-14) this shows how the government doesn’t really care about the side effects of the technique Alex was put on. They try to make it look like they are helping their society but really they are not they are just trying to
The government that should be helping them is either corrupted or just plain evil, both characters faced a corrupted government that was suppose to help them but didn’t. Alex the main character from the story A Clockwork Orange faced a corrupted government the government in the story A Clockwork Orange did not care for its because F. Alexander said “I think you can help dislodge this unbearing government to turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government sure that boasts of its repressiveness.”(3.1.21) the person talking is trying to show how the government is happy that they did something which they believe is going to benefit society but really it isn’t they just forcing someone to act they want them to because they know he doesn’t have the freedom anymore to act the way he is suppose but act to please society. Sydney “Syd” Carton faces a corrupted government through his society they didn’t care for their people and Syd didn’t really care for that. In the society Syd lived in there was a system called Patrons and Proxies there was no in between “But that was the system. …show more content…
However in a dystopian world there is the lack of personal anatomy which means whatever the anti hero does will not have only a personal affect but it would have an effect on everyone around them. In Sydney’s dystopian society Sydney’s life changed once his patron named Knox got into a car accident his life changed completely. Sydney finally realized that “Some things are more important than any one person” (London 204) when Sydney learned this through his journey as an anti hero it changed his life. It made him realize that the journey ahead of him is going to be a long and hard one but it is going to make a difference in his society and community. Alex also faces the same adversities as Sydney however their stories are different in their own way. Alex was used as a lab rat for the government. He was their first tester of their new creation the Ludovico technique. The government didn’t really care who the technique would affect Dr. Brodsky said “we are not concerned with motive with the higher ethics we are concerned only with cutting down crime.” (2.7.13-14) this shows how the government doesn’t really care about the side effects of the technique Alex was put on. They try to make it look like they are helping their society but really they are not they are just trying to