... Karova Milk Bar where they get high on drug-laced milkshakes, which they do every night, before venturing out for an evening of robbery, rape, and assault. This night, Alex and his fellow thugs drive to the country where they break into the cottage of one, F. Alexander, ... who they beat and rob while forcing him to watch the rape of his wife. During the assault we learn F. Alexander is a political reformer who was writing a protest book entitled A Clockwork Orange. The next ... in losing his love of classical music, Alex loses one of his connections to "civilized life." Upon successfu...

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... de-personalization process. The number is also supposed to symbolize a countdown to his actual re-birth as a free-thinker (Wagner). In his first few years of prison he is controlled, but only to a point. They can control what he does by chains and bars, but they cannot control his thoughts and his feelings. ... physical actions, Alex is obviously still a free thinking entity. It would be impossible to send him back into society with his thoughts of murder and rape driving him to commit crimes. As long as Alex still has the freedom to think about what he chooses he is not totally controll...

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... 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 ... is told that the old woman, who he had beaten in the process of robbing, died...

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... basic doings generally associated with anarchy. This young hoodlum is eventually betrayed to the police by his own gang and sentenced to fourteen years in prison--a prison which attempts to cure him of his love for violence and evil using what was dubbed the "Ludovico Technique" yet at the same time strips ... to induce this bonus or malus: it is purely an accident that, from now on, he will automatically react to Mozart or Beethoven as he will to rape and murder." (CLC 61). The "State" not only committed sin in not allowing the "reformed" prisoner to decide on what path he would take, ....

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... basic doings generally associated with anarchy. This young hoodlum is eventually betrayed to the police by his own gang and sentenced to fourteen years in prison--a prison which attempts to cure him of his love for violence and evil using what was dubbed the "Ludovico Technique" yet at the same time strips ... induce this bonus or malus: it is purely an accident that, from now on, he will automatically react to Mozart or Beethoven as he will to rape and murder." (CLC 61). The "State" [the government which attempted to reform Alex] not only committed sin in not allowing the "reformed" .....

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... into the darkness, the evil, to hide before the make their attack. This faithful night is that when Alex and his droogs kill the writer's wife, rape her and beat her husband, better known as Alexander. On this same night Alex is sold out by his friends, the only people he thought he could ... trust. He is incarcerated and put into prison at Staja 84F. As he is in the station he says, "I had become a thing."" In Alex's words to the police there is a feeling that he ... bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop- ( ). In the prison we come across the pl...

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... into the darkness, the evil, to hide before the make their attack. This faithful night is that when Alex and his droogs kill the writer's wife, rape her and beat her husband, better known as Alexander. On this same night Alex is sold out by his friends, the only people he thought he could ... trust. He is incarcerated and put into prison at Staja 84F. As he is in the station he says, "I had become a thing."" In Alex's words to the police there is a feeling that he ... bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop- ( ). In the prison we come across the pl...

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... into the darkness, the evil, to hide before the make their attack. This faithful night is that when Alex and his droogs kill the writer's wife, rape her and beat her husband, better known as Alexander. On this same night Alex is sold out by his friends, the only people he thought he could ... trust. He is incarcerated and put into prison at Staja 84F. As he is in the station he says, "I had become a thing."" In Alex's words to the police there is a feeling that he ... bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop- ( ). In the prison we come across the pl...

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... into the darkness, the evil, to hide before the make their attack. This faithful night is that when Alex and his droogs kill the writer's wife, rape her and beat her husband, better known as Alexander. On this same night Alex is sold out by his friends, the only people he thought he could ... trust. He is incarcerated and put into prison at Staja 84F. As he is in the station he says, "I had become a thing."" In Alex's words to the police there is a feeling that he ... bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop- ( ). In the prison we come across the pl...

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... they have moral freedom; which they choose to do bad. First they assault a young man in an alley, and then they go to this author's house, and vandalize it and rape his wife. But while at this house, they come across a book called A Clockwork Orange, and Alex reads about it: "The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable ... the jaws of justice. So in order to be viewed as a reforming criminal Alex turns to religion. He plays the music during religious ceremonies and becomes good friends with the prison chaplain. However Alex's intent on reforming was not a religious ...

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... . The four then set out on a violent rampage. After, beating and elderly man the four stop at the house of a writer. The group then proceeds to beat the man and rape his wife in front of him. The following day Alex, makes the mistake of annoying his droogs. That night while escaping a new crime scene the droogs leave Alex to be ... caught by the police. While in prison, Alex manages to get himself into a program that will make him a good person and have him out in a month. The treatment was to give Alex a drug to make him feel ... period Alex was forced to watch acts of violence. This w...

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