A Clockwork Orange Essay -- A Clockwork Orange Essays

A Clockwork OrangeWe are first introduced to Alex (Malcolm McDowell) in the company of his posse, strangely sipping drugged milk in a flakey bar with anatomically indiscrete manikins serving as tittie-taps and tables. The ensuing scenes take from Alex and his three droogs brutally beating an old man to a knock-down-and-drag-out rape scene to a semi-chaotic gang-brawl. The story is of Alex and his love of the old ultra-violence, his conduct of murder, his betrayal and imprisonment, and his resume (twice). Adapted from Anthony Burgess 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange is in part a response to psychological behaviorism and the age of uncorrupted teach. While in prison, Alex is selected for a special treatment that will cure him of his impulses to rape and brutalize. The treatment is in fact a simple conditioning processAlexs eyes are propped open and his body self-effacing so that he must watch a series of bright images while experiencing an injection induced illness. The illness b ecomes his conditioned response to brutality, rape, and, accidentally, his some(prenominal) beloved Beethovens 9th symphony....