The Bad and the Good: Finding a Balance… or Something Like That Finding a balance between good and evil is fairly difficult. Trying to justify your innocence by telling someone you listen to classical music like Mozart and Bach, doesn’t mean that you are. In society, the struggle to see a difference between good and evil comes in play with, for example, the government trying to fool us into thinking that what they're doing is for the greater good and in school-like settings with young children, teenagers, and etcetera. Despite being taught that what they are doing is trying to protect us, we can see it crumble in world affairs such as the controversy in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. A Clockwork Orange, a fantastically
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This song is based on the movie “Where Eagles Dare”, starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Most of the Misfits' songs were based on movies, especially horror movies. Which is perfect because of the amount of brutality and scariness in the book. One of the first lines in the song is “we walk the streets at night / we go where eagles dare”. This can represent a lot of things, especially in a literal sense. The droogs main meeting time was at night or after school. “We go where eagles dare” represents that they aren’t afraid of anything. Proving that they’re daring, Alex and his “brothers” concocted the perfect plan when they went to rob a store. Alex insisted that they do a “Sammy act” meaning that the group must do a magnanimous act for someone (Burgess 12). Giving them an advantage if the police came. They used three old ladies’ as their act of generosity, by buying the “poor old baboochkas over there a nourishing something” (Burgess 8). After they robbed the store and were a bit aggressive of it too, they went back to the bar by the old ladies at the bar. Because they were gone a short while, the ladies didn’t even realized they left. When the police came to the bar, the old “baboochkas” were quick to defend them by saying “They’ve been in here all night, lads’... God bless them, there’s no better lot of boys living for kindness and generosity. Been here all the time they have. Not …show more content…
This particular song is mainly about not caring about the crimes committed and love for violence. In the story, Alex talks about his crimes very pleasantly almost like if it were therapy. He says, “out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful.... then Pete kicks him lovely in his pot” (Burgess 22). Alex's speech when he talks about violence, gore and blood, is particularly flowery and aesthetic. He also says, “And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz--left two three, right two three--and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight. Down this blood poured in like red curtains”. It shows very overtly that he takes much aesthetic delight in violence when he says “down this blood poured in like red curtains” emphasizing how aesthetically pleasing the blood was. Almost like the lines in “Last Caress”, “I got something to say /I killed your baby today / And it doesn't matter much to me / As long as it's dead” followed by “sweet lovely death / I’m waiting for your breath / One last caress”. By singing that, they’re saying that killing the baby gave them relief and pleasure like it did Alex when he assaulted the man. Alex looks at murder like an art form. The way he describes the act makes him sound like he’s describing a painting or even a song. Alex’s obsession with
This song is based on the movie “Where Eagles Dare”, starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Most of the Misfits' songs were based on movies, especially horror movies. Which is perfect because of the amount of brutality and scariness in the book. One of the first lines in the song is “we walk the streets at night / we go where eagles dare”. This can represent a lot of things, especially in a literal sense. The droogs main meeting time was at night or after school. “We go where eagles dare” represents that they aren’t afraid of anything. Proving that they’re daring, Alex and his “brothers” concocted the perfect plan when they went to rob a store. Alex insisted that they do a “Sammy act” meaning that the group must do a magnanimous act for someone (Burgess 12). Giving them an advantage if the police came. They used three old ladies’ as their act of generosity, by buying the “poor old baboochkas over there a nourishing something” (Burgess 8). After they robbed the store and were a bit aggressive of it too, they went back to the bar by the old ladies at the bar. Because they were gone a short while, the ladies didn’t even realized they left. When the police came to the bar, the old “baboochkas” were quick to defend them by saying “They’ve been in here all night, lads’... God bless them, there’s no better lot of boys living for kindness and generosity. Been here all the time they have. Not …show more content…
This particular song is mainly about not caring about the crimes committed and love for violence. In the story, Alex talks about his crimes very pleasantly almost like if it were therapy. He says, “out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful.... then Pete kicks him lovely in his pot” (Burgess 22). Alex's speech when he talks about violence, gore and blood, is particularly flowery and aesthetic. He also says, “And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz--left two three, right two three--and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight. Down this blood poured in like red curtains”. It shows very overtly that he takes much aesthetic delight in violence when he says “down this blood poured in like red curtains” emphasizing how aesthetically pleasing the blood was. Almost like the lines in “Last Caress”, “I got something to say /I killed your baby today / And it doesn't matter much to me / As long as it's dead” followed by “sweet lovely death / I’m waiting for your breath / One last caress”. By singing that, they’re saying that killing the baby gave them relief and pleasure like it did Alex when he assaulted the man. Alex looks at murder like an art form. The way he describes the act makes him sound like he’s describing a painting or even a song. Alex’s obsession with