Clockwork Orange: A Comparative Analysis

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

With freedom comes a great deal of responsibility which is the major theme of the book, Clockwork Orange. In the book, Alex says, “Nobody will tell me what I get out of this. Tortured in jail, thrown out of my own home by my own parents and their filthy overbearing lodger, beaten by old men and nearly killed by millicents--what is to become of me?” (183). This quote clearly exemplifies the meaning of the book. When people get the privilege to live freely, they have to honor that freedom. Once something is done against the law or the norms of society; there are consequences. Jail is a major role when it comes to settling consequences, and if jail is the punishment being treated like a trash is a given. Connecting this to the book, Alex went to jail because of all his murders he convicted. He was not treated with any respect because he did not deserve it. When Alex learned the hard way that respect is gained he wanted to change his ways, but no one wanted to be part of his life anymore. Not even his parents. Once the freedom is taken away nothing is ever the same, and this is what happened to