Ryan Brown Film and Novel 12/10/13 Essay 2 In the novels A Clockwise Orange by Anthony Burgess and Misery by Stephen King, they both express what is portrayed to be socially right and what is socially wrong. In A Clockwise Orange, the novel is taking place in a futuristic London. Alex Delarge is the leader of a gang that they call the “Droogs”. After a night of drugs and intoxication they engage in violence by fighting a rival gang and stealing a car to travel to the home of a writer F. Alexander where they nearly killed him. After beating Mr. Alexander’s nearly to death he rapes his wife while singing. In Misery, there is a famous novelist named Paul Sheldon who is the author of a successful series of novels that features a character named Misery Chastain. Paul has decided to focus his mind on more serious novels and writes a new manuscript for an unrelated novel. Paul is later caught in a blizzard while driving home to New York City and his car goes off the road. His number one fan Annie Wilkes rescues him and she brings him to her house in a remote location where she attempts to take care of him. Both of these well-known novels and their respected films portray what is deemed to be socially right vs. socially wrong. In the film A Clockwise Orange, Alex is an avid drug user and also an avid drinker that causes his to lash out at the littlest things that set him off. He does things that the normal human being would consider to be crazy or socially wrong. After a night of nearly killing Mr. Alexander and raping his wife the following day he is out as if nothing had ever happened and he is warned by his probation officer to keep a low profile. That night he visits a store where he picks up two girls and brings them home with ... ... middle of paper ... ...m. This was the first time it was evident that she was acting socially wrong and was trying to keep him from leaving. For the rest of the book she shows small signs of going back to being socially right but is mostly acting socially wrong because of the way she is treating Paul and keeping him held captive. In the novel A Clockwise Orange and Misery, they both have characters that are seen as what we consider socially right and socially wrong. These two characters show how they are both socially right and socially wrong. The two characters from their respected books start opposite of eachother. In A Clockwise Orange, Ales goes from socially wrong to socially right. While in Misery, Annie starts off as socially right and turns to socially wrong. Both of these novels compare and give examples of what is socially right and socially wrong to our everyday standards.
The setting of Code Orange affects the plot because them living in the heart of the city would mean that the disease smallpox would spread easier. The book Code Orange is a realistic fiction novel that was written by Caroline B Cooney. In the book the reader is introduced to Mitty Blake a 16 year old who doesn’t take school serious. And he was doing a project for bio so he didn’t get kicked out of the class. When he found scabs from a smallpox epidemic in 1902. In the novel code orange The setting affects the plot because It can spread quickly, there are a lot of people that it will affect, and he lives in the heart of the city.
Whether we read books, watch movies, or simply live life, we cannot ignore that writers, directors or people create pairs of characters that may have things in common and characteristics that show them as opposites. Sometimes, they may seem obvious but at other times, the individuals have to be analyzed and understood. They are placed in stories to show the good and the bad in the story. However, placing similar and somewhat opposite characters together is clearly portrayed in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. These characters go through some of the same situations but they can be distinguished differently by the way they choose to deal a situation. Sometimes, their intention may be alike however, in the end, their doing is what makes them two different people. This contrast is especially evident when comparing Walter Cunningham Sr. and Bob Ewell, Boo Radely and Nathan Radely, and, lastly, Miss. Maudie and Miss. Stephanie.
1. As I was reading the book Clockwork Orange, I felt like it deserved a 8 out of 10. I enjoyed the book because while I was reading it, I did not have such a clear image of all the rape, sex, and violence. Talking from personal experiences, I did not want to picture those images in my head. Finding out there was a movie of Clockwork Orange kind of scared me but also gave me excitement because I wanted to see how different the the book was from the movie. After viewing Clockwork Orange, I would rate it a 7 out of 10. I rated it a 7 out of 10 because the rape and violence was overused. In the beginning of the movie, there were non-stop sex and rape scenes. For example, when Alex and his goons fake their way into an emergency just so they could attack a older man and rape his wife, who later dies because of this accident. Toward the end of the movie, there was a lot of
First published in 1962 (McNamee), follows fifteen year old Alex. The novel starts with Alex recounting a typical night of "ultraviolence" that he and his "droogs" participate in. The night includes drinking, drugs, and violence of the worst kind including rape. Eventually this lifestyle catches up to him, and Alex is arrested (Burgess 67). He is offered the opportunity to participate in an experimental procedure that it is believed will cure him of his violent behavior and his sentence is reduced (82). When he is released, Alex realizes that the treatment has rendered him effectively unable to make his own decisions about whether to do the right or the wrong thing as well as sucking pleasure out of every day things he used to enjoy such as music and art (156). Alex finds himself at the mercy of a man he had crossed in the past (167) and attempts to commit suicide (169). In the original British edition of the book, the final chapter reveals that after waking up in the hospital, Alex's went on to finally grow up and settle down, however in the first published version to reach America this final 21st chapter was left out so that the novel ended with the failing of the conditioning and Alex returning to his old ways (Jarvis).
As Madeleine L’Engle aptly said, “because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person,” taking away freedom of choice is equivalent to stripping off humanity. Mankind has evolved to have the ability to use the mind for reason and understanding, which separates humans from beasts and machines. It is this ability that allows man to analyze and formulate different choices, and have the freedom over them. Despite the knowledge that freedom of choice is fundamental in making humans human, social control has always been one of the leading reasons to justify the removal of that freedom. Through showing the need for the loss of freedom for social stability and the resulting problems, both The Unincorporated Man and A Clockwork Orange highlight the conflict between control and freedom.
Burgess states: “The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities” (Burgess XIII). The government will always try to maintain order, but alex still has the right to live his life how he pleases. every criminal act that alex does, he chooses. This perplexes the government leading them to question alex’s home life. If alex’s home life is unsatisfactory, it would explain his criminal tendencies. However, there are no factors of alex’s homelife that would explain his nature. P. R. Deltoid says to alex, “ You’ve got a good home here, good loving parents, [...] [i]s it some devil that crawls inside you?” P. R. Deltoid is trying to figure out why alex is the way he is but what he doesn't understand is that there is not “cause”, alex is the way he is because he chooses to be. Even so, alex is not destined to stay evil. In the final chapter of a clockwork orange, one of alex’s former partner in crime, pete, tells him that he has settled down and started a family leading alex to reflect on his life, realize that he is no longer happy living a criminal lifestyle, and decide to mature and change his
The visual essay “Apples to Oranges” by Claire Ironside presents the reader with a series of infographics displaying the environmental impact of industrially farmed, non-local produce. The author attempts to approach the audience with a logical appeal using facts and statistics. Despite these efforts, the essay is missing an explicit statement of the author’s argument, and the infographics used throughout the essay are ambiguous and misleading. The obscure images, lack of logical connections and absence of an explicit claim leave the reader more confused than persuaded. These problems require the reader to infer most of the information and context, which is contradictory to the purpose of a visual medium. This is why I believe that “Apples
Alex is far beyond that. Alex enjoys his music even more when he is committing rape or the “ultraviolence. ”On page 51 of A Clockwork Orange, Alex comes across 2 girls that are the age of 12 in his favorite record store,where he acquires all of his records for his record player. Alex decides to take the two girls back to his apartment and rape them.
The idea of one being free or not free is greatly debated for the main character, Alex, in A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. Almost anyone, when asked, will say that they believe they are free because they are able to make their own decision and can do what they choose, also known as free will. But to what extent are you truly free? It all comes down to what you consider it means to be free. According to critic Samuel McCracken, there is a definite difference between free will and free choice. He argues that Alex is not deprived of free will, rather than free choice. Samuel McCracken explains that in order to be “brainwashed’ one must be provided with a new set of opinions and values. Throughout the novel, there isn’t a point in which
You are constantly told to “be yourself”. However, when you act like yourself society judges you for it. For example, if you are being silly because that is your personality, society will say you are immature. At school, you are expected to hang out with the same friend group of clique. It is not “normal” to have friends from different cliques. In the book The Crucible, people were not allowed to dance. If they did, society would say they were participating in witchcraft. This same theme occurs in The Scarlet Letter as well. People were expected to stay away from Hester because of the crime she committed. If you communicated with Hester, you would be judged by society and shamed like she was. Last but not least, Of Mice and Men also supports this theme. Society made it so that it was normal for ranch workers to travel alone. If they had a friend that traveled with him like George did with Lennie, that was considered weird and
Alex is the type of character one loves to hate; he makes it all too easy to dislike him. He is a brutal, violent, teenage criminal with no place in society. His one and only role is to create chaos, which he does too well. Alex’s violent nature is first witnessed during the first chapter, and is soon seen again when Alex and his gang chose to brutally beat an innocent drunkard. This beating off the homeless man serves no purpose other then to amuse Alex’s gang. The acts committed were not performed for revenge, the one reason given was that Alex did not enjoy seeing a homeless drunk, “I could never stand to see a moodge all filthy and rolling and burping and drunk, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real starry like this one was” (13). Alex continues to explain his reason for dislike, “his platties were a disgrace, all creased and untidy and covered in cal” (13), from this explanation one realizes his reasons for nearly killing a man are simply based on pleasure, desire, and a dislike toward the untidy. By the end of the second chapter Burgess’s inventive usage of a different language to keep the reader alienated from forming opinions about Alex ceases to work.
Societies standards are what everyone wants to fit into it is the norms that are used as a guide to living life. The grandmother and the misfit in O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” follow the way of social values, thoughts, and way society sees one another closely in 1953. Both the grandmother and the misfit are different in many ways, but have one common value of society’s views are important to them. The way society views and judges people causes both the misfit and the grandmother to act differently but subtly makes them more alike than either of them could tell. The shared value of society’s point of view on a human being can explain both characters views, behaviors, and actions because of how heavily it weighed on the grandma and
Menace II Society, a film about a young Black man who has lived the “hustler” lifestyle and is struggling to leave it, is a perfect example of deviance as the main character, Caine Lawson, and the characters around him violate many of society’s norms. Throughout the film, the characters swear incessantly, carry around guns and drugs as most people would carry around cell phones, commit street crimes, especially burglary and mugging, on a regular basis, and beat and kill people unscrupulously. The following quote captures just how deviant Caine and the other characters in this film were, “[Caine] went into the store just to get a beer. Came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery. It's funny like that in the hood sometimes. You never knew what was gonna happen, or when” (Albert Hughes). Why would Caine consider these crimes “funny”, or rather, so insignificant? What caused Caine to become so deviant? The answers to such questions were woven into the plot of the film and will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
Everyone tells Alex that she is something that she is not. Alex is just like any normal teenager. She fights with her parents and has a hard time in school. But things are a little different for her, or him? In the beginning of the book Alex enrolls herself into a new school without her parents knowledge. We then follow her quest to obtain a birth certificate, and be accepted by her parents who continue to call Alex ‘he’. We learn why she left her old school and we see new obstacles come through at her new one. Both at school and at home Alex has a hard time just being her. We see through Alex’s point of view, but once in a while the other Alex comes through, the boy Alex. She is desperate to rid herself of him, and does everything in her power
The novel ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess is set in a dystopia, a society that cannot truly exist, and is usually a depiction of what the author believes the future will, heavily emphasizing negative aspects of society. The novel is set in an ultra-violent dystopia, in a society in where he government lacks power to control the youth who regularly terrorize the civilian populations. The author describes these gangs with great detail, using their slang (Nadsat) throughout the novel, and describes with excruciating detail the pain and torment that the victims of the crime go through. However, the victims of his ultra-violence are not the group that is marginalized in this text, the feelings and opinions of a largely forgotten yet important group within the society and throughout the novel as a whole are being suppressed. Even through Alex and his ‘droogs’ assault a multitude of people, seemingly, the gang prefers one group within the dystopian society, namely the group that is marginalized, women.