Clockwork Orange Essay, Research Paper
A Clockwork Orange is the story of a young teenage hooligan, Alex DeLarge, who with the company of his accomplices commit, repeated homicides and rapes at night. They break into homes of innocent people and commit crimes dressed like they are participants in a circus. During one of their nights of terror, Alex is caught by the police and jailed. During his prison term, there is a research project being designed to deter the criminalistic mind as well as to make room for the prisoners by aversion therapy proposed by the government. Alex becomes cured by the therapy and when released back into society is rejected by his family, tortured by his friends and confronted by the people who he had committed crimes against in his prior lifestyle. The story takes place in Britain.
In the movie the law is viewed as one that deters crime by sentencing and jailing criminals for crimes committed by introduce an alternative to deter crime and law among an individual group in society. In one of the beginning scenes of the movie, the British police are holding a woman hostage as if they are going to physical assault her. This is the first display of how corruptness of authority creates the environment for violence among the four juveniles who live among the society. Alex and his friends find excitement in beating the police officers senseless.
Alex who is the leader of the group of four makes all the decisions for t
Upon release from his treatment his family rejects him because they fear him. He is rejected by society because everyone who he has contact with has a vendetta against him for the crimes he committed against them. The once “cronies” have now become police officers and decide they have the authority power over Alex now and beat his senseless.