Clockwork Orange and religion
The story of A Clockwork Orange takes place in the future of the director’s invention, complete with a repressive government, violent street gangs, and a deadening mass culture. The narrator is the young . Alex, at the start of the movie, is a happy 15-year-old hoodlum who delights in rape, violence, thievery, and leading Dim, Pete, and Georgie, his little gang of teenage criminals. To amuse themselves, they break in one night to a cottage in the country, where they beat up the man they find inside and brutally rape his wife. The boys go on their way, this is an ordinary night for them, and back to their favorite hangout. At the bar, a woman breaks out into song, a little bit of opera. When Dim makes an obscene gesture toward her, Alex, a great lover of classical music, gives him a good punch. It seems to Dim and the others that autocratic little Alex is stepping beyond his rights as a leader, and they plan to betray him. The next time they go out, they break into the house of an old woman. When she calls the police, Dim whips Alex across the eyes with a milk bottle and they all run away, leaving their former leader behind, blinded and helpless, for the police to catch. At the station, Alex is told that the old woman, who he had
beaten in the process of robbing, died at the hospital. When Alex is released, he has no idea what to do. The people he wronged in the past take their revenge on him; now they can hit him, and he is unable to hit back. Dim, his old friend, and Billyboy, an old enemy, now both policemen, drive him out into a field, beat him, and leave him. Trying to find someone to help him, Alex knocks at the door of a cottage. A man lets him in and very kindly gives him dinner and a room for the night. Alex recognizes the man as the writer he beat up and whose wife he raped, but the man does not recognize Alex, who wore a mask on that long-ago night. This writer, F. Alexander, is a political dissident. He and his friends come up with a plan to use Alex to make the repressive government look bad, they drive him to suicide by locking him in a room and piping classical music into it, so Alex is driven by the sick feeling to throw himself out the window. They plan to blame the government for the boy's death. The fall, however, does not kill Alex, and government psychologists reverse Ludovico's Technique on him while he is unconscious, so that, when he comes to, he is back to his old happy, violent self. He gets back to his old tricks for a while, with a new gang, but he's growing up and begins to get tired of his thug's life. At the end of the movie, he starts thinking about settling down, marrying, and having a son. Another strong theme in A Clockwork orange is the idea of eliminating all laws. With the elimination of laws Alex’s crimes would have been unnoticed and he would not have received the cruel punishment that he did. Alternately Alex would also not have learned about the joys of religion in prison. The elimination of laws in society would cause a great struggle throughout the social classes. The bible gives the first representation of today’s laws. Peo
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Ludovico's Technique,
Clockwork Orange,
Pete Georgie,
Fortunately Jesus,
Alternately Alex,
Bible Alex,
Jesus Alex,
clockwork orange,
classical music,
Orange Unlike,
bible alex,
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avoidance bad company,
jesus desert,
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repressive government,
punishments severe,
avoidance bad,
ludovico's technique,
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