A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

In A Clockwork Orange, the norms of society have been completely reversed. Parents are told what to do by their children. Adolescent "fun" no longer includes casual sports and hanging out. Gruesome acts of violence are really "horrorshow"(cool) in these times. With no drinking age and hardly enough of a police force to combat the innumerable amounts of robberies, muggings, and murders, it is easy to see why the government had to turn to such extremes as Ludovico's Technique, but it is not easy to agree with their decision.

With the prisons filled to maximum capacity and many more criminals on the way, the government had no choice but to release some back into public, not without good measure of course. Ludovico's Technique teaches the criminal's body to associate violence with nausea. Alex, the first criminal ever to be subjected to the Ludovico's technique, has a difficult time stomaching what he is being forced to see. " 'Stop it, stop it, stop it,' I kept on creeching out. 'Turn it off you grahzny bastards, for I can stand no more.' " Alex is a boy who has beaten, stabbed, and clubbed people into bloody pulps. He has broken into houses and taken advantage of pre-teen girls,