Orange

“Am I just to be a clockwork orange?” is the quote the entire book, The Clockwork Orange focuses around. It shows the yearning of all humans to be able to think for themselves and make their own decisions. The Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess uses the main character, Alex, to express the significance of individual freedom in contrast to doing what is right. Throughout the book, Alex is put through many ordeals that leave him inquiring whether it is better to have no choice in his…

SOCIAL In A Clockwork Orange, characters view and utilize craftsmanship in a wide range of ways, making a complex and clashed picture of how art and genuine communicate. Alex utilizes music, film, and art to express and comprehend his life. During the two weeks that specialists…

John Anthony Burgess Wilson is most commonly known for this book, A Clockwork Orange, but he also wrote many other books. Burgess grew up during the Great Depression and was made fun of because he was rather well off compared to his classmates and was one of few who could read. Burgess had originally hoped to study music, but was turned down from his first choice of college. Burgess ended up studying English language between 1937 and 1940. Burgess was in the British Army and was eventually moved…

Chandler Bridges May 14, 2015 Agent Orange “One Significate Ghost" In war, the first prerogative is that you must be able to find the enemy. During the Vietnam war, the United States utilized a group of herbicides which became known as the “Rainbow Herbicides" (Murray 2005) These chemicals, prefixed with "agent" named for their color, were stored in 55 gallon metal barrels with a simple, color-coded strip to designate the contents, of all the "agents", Agent Orange was the most extensively…

Nursing, Conceiving”). Do Duc Diu, a father who lost twelve out of his fifteen children from the effects of Agent Orange expresses how Agent Orange has changed the meaning of his life. The effects of Agent Orange are horrific. Any where from 2.1 million to 4.5 million Vietnamese citizens have been exposed from the time of spraying the dioxin-contaminated herbicide ("Health Effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin"). It has been nearly forty years since the destructive herbicide was used, and the…

Agent Orange: The Perpetual Consequences Generations of Vietnamese civilians exposed to a perilous chemical: all due to the spraying of an herbicide over Vietnam’s jungles. The Vietnam War was between the Communist North Vietnam and the United States. The conflict became global when Communist-supportive countries began sending reinforcements to the Vietnamese and the United States gained support from its allies. The Viet Cong soldiers knew their jungles by heart and used the plant cover to…

Hayden Jackson Ms. Carter ENG3U-01 4 May 2015 Sociopathic Tendencies in Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange It is known that A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a very disturbing book and does not have the best reputation out there in terms of books. But this is a very good book that teaches you to go outside the norm to create a truly gripping and stunning story. In this book Burgess introduces the character Alex DeLarge; a 15 year old boy who enjoys all the worst things a young boy can…

Burgess in his novel A Clockwork Orange. In the book, the reader can identify one main theme; the importance of free will. The reader is taken through the book by 15-year-old Alex whom along with his friends are described engaging in activities such as rape, violence, and theft until he is subjected to a form of conditioning that “cures” him of this violent nature. In 1971, director Stanley Kubrick adapted the novel into a film under the same title, A Clockwork Orange. Sharing the same theme as…

Agent Orange: A Weapon of Destruction The infamous Brutus from the play, Julius Caesar, used the idea of the end justifies the means to rationalize his decision to kill Caesar for the greater good of the Roman Republic. This idea had been used by many throughout history to justify their morally wrong actions for the greater good. The United States federal government might have argued that the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War and dumping more than 11 million gallons of Agent Orange…

The philosophical question of if we, as individuals, have free will is one that does not produce a concrete answer. But in 1971, Stanley Kubrick brought that question to life in a film called A Clockwork Orange. This film portrays a young man named Alex, who is a criminal gang leader, and participates in the Ultra-Violence. Does Alex have the free will to choose his fate as a dangerous, drug-induced criminal in society or is has his fate been predetermined since birth? Could the environment in…