“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us,” these words of Machiavelli pertains to Anthony Burgess’ thoughts on the importance of free will. In the daunting novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess uses the story to tell the audience that free will is a right to everyone and the government can’t take that away. The novel is set in an English town in the 1960’s. A Clockwork Orange is a blunt novel about Alex, a fifteen-year-old criminal who tries to exercise his innate freewill.
The motif of classical music is intertwined with Alex’s love of crime which the government tries to suppress in order to control him. Alex would put on “the starry stereo and put on J.S Bach” for his pleasure as he would sexually assault the women he lured back to his room (94). Plato …show more content…
The teenagers at the Korova milk bar would drink “milk plus vellocet” to kick off their nights (2). Also “moloko sounds like [they’re] issued” from the mouth’s of children (Sparknotes). The milk increases the oppression that the government adds to makes its citizens helpless like a baby. The whiteness of the milk is ironic that a seemingly pure drink would be laced with drugs; making the English youth less innocent than they actually are. The milk symbolizes the mass control and the ability to sedate the population of teenagers. Burgess highlights how easily citizens are influenced by subliminal suggestions.
The motif of classical music and the symbolism of milk depicts the controlling government in that no matter how hard you try to change them they will find evil in the pure things. The adolescents find the inhumane things out of the purest activities such as drinking milk or listening to classical music. Burgess uses Alex to describe his disdain for a totalitarian government and that his generation and generations to come to should attempt to overcome
The motif of classical music is intertwined with Alex’s love of crime which the government tries to suppress in order to control him. Alex would put on “the starry stereo and put on J.S Bach” for his pleasure as he would sexually assault the women he lured back to his room (94). Plato …show more content…
The teenagers at the Korova milk bar would drink “milk plus vellocet” to kick off their nights (2). Also “moloko sounds like [they’re] issued” from the mouth’s of children (Sparknotes). The milk increases the oppression that the government adds to makes its citizens helpless like a baby. The whiteness of the milk is ironic that a seemingly pure drink would be laced with drugs; making the English youth less innocent than they actually are. The milk symbolizes the mass control and the ability to sedate the population of teenagers. Burgess highlights how easily citizens are influenced by subliminal suggestions.
The motif of classical music and the symbolism of milk depicts the controlling government in that no matter how hard you try to change them they will find evil in the pure things. The adolescents find the inhumane things out of the purest activities such as drinking milk or listening to classical music. Burgess uses Alex to describe his disdain for a totalitarian government and that his generation and generations to come to should attempt to overcome