Ludovico's Technique is a scientific method for taking moral choice away from troublesome criminals: After being conditioned, the person subjected to this treatment feels intense pain and nausea whenever he has a violent thought. The criminal is forced to be good. In A Clockwork Orange, Alex undergoes the Ludovico's Technique. It cures him of his violent ways; by forcing him to do well out of fear that he will become sick. At one point in the book, Alex can only choose evil, then is supposedly cured where he becomes a machine that is forced to choose good, and finally is cured and establishes free will.
At the beginning of the novel, Alex is a violent natured, teenaged hooligan. He enjoys a life of crime. He leads a gang of other teenage hooligans that find pleasure in rape and killing. Alex and his followers beat up a helpless old man that they meet coming home from the public library. Alex also bullies Dim and injures Billyboy, his two best friends. Dim and Billyboy seize this as an opportunity to overthrow Alex and his autocratic ways. After raping a girl one night, while trying to flee the house, Dim hits him across the eyes with a chain, leaving Alex helpless and at the mercy of the cops. Alex is arrested and punished severely. He undergoes the Ludovico's Technique which scientist feel has temporarily cured him. However, this technique does not make anything in the least bit better.
Alex has receives the Ludovico's treatment and becomes a machine that only knows well. Events in this part of the novel are mirror images of the beginning of the novel. Alex runs into the same old man that he beat up when he was younger, and is humiliated beaten up by the old man. Similarly, Billybob and Dim, who are now cops, take Alex out to a field and brutally beat him to take their revenge. Alex cannot fight back, because the thought of violence is too overwhelming for him. At one point in the novel he is trapped in a room and hears classical music.
A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... "A Clockwork Orange" deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ...
A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... "A Clockwork Orange" deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ...
Violence is the universal element in A Clockwork Orange. ... There is not just one function of violence in our lives, just as there is more than one function of violence in A Clockwork Orange. ... Clearly A Clockwork Orange, in comparison to violence of the present day, may be seen as harsh. ... Everything that happens in A Clockwork Orange happens everyday in our society. ... That is what A Clockwork Orange does and why it is perceived as so violent. ...
"A Clockwork Orange" is an anti-utopian novel, describing an imminent future in a stately supervised country. ... "A Clockwork Orange" confronts us with an anonymous, totalitarian country, as well as in "1984". ... But which warning does "A Clockwork Orange" imply? ... Firstly, "A Clockwork Orange" includes a warning against totalitarian state forms. ... In "A Clockwork Orange" the people feels threatened by growing criminality and for that reason elects an authoritarian party. ...
The novels, A Clockwork Orange and 1984 both represent a future dystopia. ... Irony and betrayal are devices used in both, 1984 and A Clockwork Orange. ... In A Clockwork Orange, the Ludvico Technique is used. ... This is similar to the Ludvico method in A Clockwork Orange. ... A Clockwork Orange also includes a warning against a totalitarian state. ...
He will be best remembered by his eighth novella, A Clockwork Orange. ... Burgess also plays with puns throughout A Clockwork Orange in order to add humor to serious situations and dialogues. ... The most principle theme of A Clockwork Orange involves the freedom of a man to choose between good and evil. ... Another very important theme in A Clockwork Orange is that of youth vs. old age. ... That is something that not many writers are able to do, which is why A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books. ...
- the opening line of Anthony Burgess" A Clockwork Orange, being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven. ... Burgess skilfully introduces us to his futuristic slang, or nadsat, making A Clockwork Orange valuable not only for the questions it raises, but also for its creative and experimental use of the English language in which we see hints of Russian. ...
Classical Conditioning in "A Clockwork Orange" The movie "A Clockwork Orange" is often described as one of the most disturbing films ever made. My question is what really disturbs them so much about this film, Is it the gratuitous sex and violence transparent throughout most of the film? Or is it...
An orange is ripe or not. ... There is a great use of orange and red in the set, perhaps used to represent the orange which can not be fixed. ... The title has two primary meanings: first, the basic meaning of the Cockney expression (not an example of rhyming slang, incidentally) "as queer as a clockwork orange", something that on the surface was normal, but inside was artificial and unnatural. ... This particular clockwork orange is human on the surface, but inside is no such thing. ... An orange cannot be "repaired!" ...
When Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange, John Anthony Burgess Wilson created his own world set in London during a future time when gangs and violence are rampant on the streets, "which is his own particular vision of horrors yet to come." ... This particular brand of literature stressed the overly pessimistic view of human nature and featured, as was presented in A Clockwork Orange, violence as well as the dark areas of human behavior and society. ...
