Naive adolescents are told to live and learn from their mistakes, but some children do not grow out of their mistakes. In fact, those several misfortunate kids have an innate willingness and passion for the reckless things they do. Those children make the choices that take them on the wrong path. Through mood, imagery, and Alex being forced to be peaceful in Clockwork Orange; Burgess proves Alex’s violent personality and passion is innate and not learned. Alex makes the choice to rape a woman instead of run from the robbery his friends and himself committed, the time and experiment he endured in the prison, and when he realized his best friend from his youth had pulled his life together yet stayed the same the violent, thoughtless man. Burgess’
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Out of Aristotle's followers ,he was of the most forceful and violent tyrants of his time. “Burgess’ purpose was to lay this connection with Alexander the Great’ tyranny with a theory of “ultraviolence” (Matthew 37) A type of violence that came from within and with complete selfish greed. Alex spoke with more intent than his friends. They had naive childish rebellion they would grow out of but sadly Alex saw his actions as a philosophy. His friends always spoke of his “aristotle wishy washy works” (Burgess 3). At only 17 it seems like a young adolescent sucked into societies dangers.Although the societal “unimaginably nasty, mindless and mind-hating”acts are slashings, robberies, raping with the hoodlum gangs, the pack hunting, wanton killings violence he sees with “eloquence and joy”(Hyman 79) Allowing teens to isolate themselves further from their actions and closer to a fantasy world creates his own language with his friends almost untranslatable to anyone outside the group. Many critics like Keith M. Booker share my claim that you can not hide from reality this way and the language learned will not mask internal struggles. If these gangs were really affecting society they would have had the power to influence others by starting an entirely new language and spread it further from their group. The struggle to know who you are as …show more content…
Oppressed and surrounded by violent people Alex has nothing to do but daydream of what he could do with his innate violent nature. His only interest are him lying “naked on his bed surrounded by his speakers listening to Mozart or Bach” thinking of grinding his boot in the face of men or even raping riped screaming girls.”(Hyman 81). Disrespecting authority and an attack on another inmate lands him in the prison’s new aversion conditioning also known as “Ludovico's Technique”(Connelly). His first reaction to the experiment was total enjoyment to be watching violent films, getting more attention from authority almost as in praise, and listening to the crashes and inclines of his classical music. The experiment forced him to feel nauseated when thinking of these violents acts that made up the real Alex. The idea behind stripping violent men of their ways was that to do good force or even to think good is the only remedy for the discomfort(DeVitis 65). Though Even the people who have done wrong and think upside down should not be stripped is this dehumanizing way. Anthony Burgess, himself, agrees that the ultimate act of evil is the dehumanization, the killing of the soul. Which is as much to say the capacity to choose between good and evil acts. In world undertaken by “ultra violence” yet fully aware of all these acts, it is chosen as an act of will. A world
Out of Aristotle's followers ,he was of the most forceful and violent tyrants of his time. “Burgess’ purpose was to lay this connection with Alexander the Great’ tyranny with a theory of “ultraviolence” (Matthew 37) A type of violence that came from within and with complete selfish greed. Alex spoke with more intent than his friends. They had naive childish rebellion they would grow out of but sadly Alex saw his actions as a philosophy. His friends always spoke of his “aristotle wishy washy works” (Burgess 3). At only 17 it seems like a young adolescent sucked into societies dangers.Although the societal “unimaginably nasty, mindless and mind-hating”acts are slashings, robberies, raping with the hoodlum gangs, the pack hunting, wanton killings violence he sees with “eloquence and joy”(Hyman 79) Allowing teens to isolate themselves further from their actions and closer to a fantasy world creates his own language with his friends almost untranslatable to anyone outside the group. Many critics like Keith M. Booker share my claim that you can not hide from reality this way and the language learned will not mask internal struggles. If these gangs were really affecting society they would have had the power to influence others by starting an entirely new language and spread it further from their group. The struggle to know who you are as …show more content…
Oppressed and surrounded by violent people Alex has nothing to do but daydream of what he could do with his innate violent nature. His only interest are him lying “naked on his bed surrounded by his speakers listening to Mozart or Bach” thinking of grinding his boot in the face of men or even raping riped screaming girls.”(Hyman 81). Disrespecting authority and an attack on another inmate lands him in the prison’s new aversion conditioning also known as “Ludovico's Technique”(Connelly). His first reaction to the experiment was total enjoyment to be watching violent films, getting more attention from authority almost as in praise, and listening to the crashes and inclines of his classical music. The experiment forced him to feel nauseated when thinking of these violents acts that made up the real Alex. The idea behind stripping violent men of their ways was that to do good force or even to think good is the only remedy for the discomfort(DeVitis 65). Though Even the people who have done wrong and think upside down should not be stripped is this dehumanizing way. Anthony Burgess, himself, agrees that the ultimate act of evil is the dehumanization, the killing of the soul. Which is as much to say the capacity to choose between good and evil acts. In world undertaken by “ultra violence” yet fully aware of all these acts, it is chosen as an act of will. A world