A Clockwork Orange

society sees throughout the media, are based on what we perceived to be right and wrong from those who raised us, the lack of attention we receive, or those that we surround ourselves with. An individual is easily influenced, take Alex from A Clockwork Orange for instance; media, lack of parenting, his environment, as well as those he surrounded himself with all had a contributing factor as to what provoked his violent, aggressive, and malice tendencies. “It seems today, that all you see is…

Based on the blatant actions and personality traits of Alex in A Clockwork Orange, the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder associated with his deviant behavior would be described as Antisocial Personality disorder; but if analyzed within sub-categories, Alex clearly portrays symptoms of both Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Beginning with the opening scene itself, Alex perceives himself and his “mates” as almost godlike, in a sense that they could do…

The main character for the novel A Clockwork Orange is Alex. Alex is a fifteen year old boy who lives in a dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian states who controls its population through violence, experiments and machines. The main character is not revealed at first but as the novel progresses, the audience learns that Alex is the main character because of the experiences and hardships that the reader learn from this character. At first, Alex seems to be just another delinquent citizen…

When speaking about A Clockwork Orange, we come to learn that Alex the main protagonist and his ‘droogs’ tend to speak in a manner of teen language commonly noted as Nadsat. Alex utilized a slang spoken just by youngsters. Grown-ups don't comprehend the dialect, which features the passionate and ideological separation between the eras. ‘M. Keith Booker argues that the teen language, "Nadsat," spoken by the narrator Alex, represents various forms of entrapment and conditioning: it may reflect the…

Mister Socrates by Choi Jin-won Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, a not typical gangster film but a movie which combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect to other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his by another friend, he gets kidnaped by a gang. He is kept…

Artemis Fowl the 2ed is a 12 year old son of an Irish crime lord. He is a child prodigy who lived a life of crime. He is very sinister and smart. He tried to take the fairy’s gold 24k. He is a manipulator that tricks people into doing things that they don’t realize he wants them to do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juliet is Butlers sister. She is not that smart but he played a role in the story. When…

fainting and terror experienced in the first screenings of Nosferatu are no more; the 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, as directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on a novel by Anthony Burgess, features gruesome scenes of gang violence, murder, rape, drug use, betrayal, experimental psychiatry, police violence, and an overall theme of moral incorrectness. Such inhumane…

As much as the mainstream Japanese filmmakers excel in family drama, the "underground" ones excel in exploitation. Since the end of the 60's, when the increased popularity of television had already taken a significant toll on the industry, the majority of the large-scale studios were forced to produce films that included sex, violence and S&M, to earn a profit. Thus the rise of the exploitation genre, a category that manages to shock people, even nowadays. The following list includes ten of the…

While most movies depict spies as 20-30 year olds who are super highly trained, this book’s protagonist is almost the exact opposite. Although it would never happen in real life, Alex Rider is a 14 year old teen who works for MI6, a British spy agency. In the previous books in the series, he has gone to a secret academy in the Alps, Cuba, and undercover with a terrorist group. Now, he goes to Russia to live with one of the richest men in the world. He later finds out that he has to foil an…

The theme that follows this story all the way to its end is that karma always gets you. There are multiple minor examples that prove this but three examples that i noticed are more stood out then others. The first, more obvious one is how Alex always treated Dim like a lesser being. “‘The rozzes are coming.’ Dim said: ‘You stay to meet them huh huh huh,’ and then I viddied that he had his oozy out, and then he upped with it and it snaked whishhh and he chained me gentle and artistic like on the…