Alex Turner

Clockwork Orange and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction       For Walter Benjamin, the defining characteristic of modernity was mass assembly and production of commodities, concomitant with this transformation of production is the destruction of tradition and the mode of experience which depends upon that tradition. While the destruction of tradition means the destruction of authenticity, of the originally, in that it also collapses the distance between art and the masses

thought, as a clockwork (Lund). Burgess says of the title, "I mean it to stand for the application of a mechanistic morality to a living organism oozing with juice and sweetness" ("Resucked" x). After the state reforms him, the novel's hero and narrator Alex becomes a clockwork orange, a man working as a machine. Nadsat is the primary language, although not the exclusive one, of A Clockwork Orange. Burgess claims he uses it "to muffle the raw response we expect from pornography." But he also

     The main character, Alex, is shown as a typical juvenile offender. He is shown in such a comparable manner not because all juvenile offenders are out robbing, rapping, and murdering people

Singing in the Rain and A Clockwork Orange are both Classical Hollywood films. However, singing in the Rain closely follows what classical Hollywood film is supposed to be and A Clockwork Orange definitely tests the idea. Classical Hollywood Cinema is a type of traditional studio based style of making films in both the sound and silent periods. The directors of these types of films want you to simply watch and not worry about why the characters are doing what they’re doing. They want you to enjoy

Fifteen year old Alex Delarge immediately becomes the object of our eyes when he approaches the screen with an obscure look, giving off vibes of an egregious attitude and manner. Alex leads a life of crime and “ultra-violence” which would best be defined as the highest form of offense. Throughout the film Alex displays an interest in causing havoc and pain towards others, Alex subjects his victims to situations in which they are left feeling vulnerable and sometimes even lifeless. Alex identifies as

The functions of language in the novel A Clockwork Orange and how those functions are achieved in the film. The argot in the novella A Clockwork Orange has many functions. Anthony Burgess uses the Nadsat to alienate the reader, veil the violence and occasionally draw the reader into the action. Although Burgess uses language to achieve these functions, Stanley Kubrick uses various cinematic techniques to achieve these functions in the film. This will be further substantiated in the essay. Anthony

he just a clockwork orange? This concept of humanity is closely examined throughout A Clockwork Orange. The novel’s protagonsist, Alex, is a 15 year old who has an abnormal affinity for crime and violence. Following an aggressive episode that leads to the death of an elderly woman, Alex finds himself sentenced to 14 years in the staja. After only two years in prison, Alex is offered an ultimatum: he could serve the remainder of the 14 year sentence, or he could in gain freedom by participating in Ludovico’s

Alex, the Faustian hero or more accurately, the anti-hero of A Clockwork Orange - a vicious and degenerate leader of a bunch of criminals, targets the feeble and the innocent. Though foolish, his attentiveness of his malicious disposition shows his ability to understand goodness and reject its relevance. When the social order tries to impose goodness upon Alex, he turns into the victim. (Jackson, 2012). He is this violent and irrational

important to remember that Alex is a teenager and that Nadsat is only used by him and other teenagers like his droogs. Thus Nadsat is the teenager argot/slang. Alex uses this argot/slang to express himself; through this use of slang it becomes clear that he finds sense of freedom that he is only able to find in a few other activities. When Alex undergoes the Lodovico treatment he stops using Nadsat language and starts using regular English. This change in language indicates how Alex undergoes the process

Spilt is a movie about a man named Kevin who is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as he has 23 alter identities. He kidnaps three teenage girls and holds them captive in the cell basement of Philadelphia Zoo. The movie plot revolves around Kevin, Dr. Fletcher who is his psychiatrist, and how the girls try to break free. After kidnapping, Kevin’s one of alter identity, Barry, a sketch artist, is shown in Dr. Fletcher’s office. The psychiatrist does take note of his unusual behavior