Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange

What was once a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, has be commence a good deal more than just that. It alone started when screenplay writer Terry grey gave Stanley Kubrick a copy of the novel, but, engage with another incumbency, Kubrick put it aside. Although by of sight and out of estimate for Kubrick, his wife decided to base the novel a establish and insisted Kubrick do the same. It had an immediate sham on him. Of his enthusiasm for it, Kubrick said,\nI was excited by everything close to it: The plot, the ideas, the characters, and, of course, the language. The story functions, of course, on close to(prenominal) levels: Political, sociological, philosophical, and, whats most important, on a dreamlike psychological-symbolic level. Kubrick wrote a screenplay trusty to the novel, saying, I think whatever Burgess had to say or so the story was said in the book, but I did mull over a few reusable narrative ideas and reshape some of the scenes. (T he Clockwork Controversy)\nSet in a near future incline society that has a subculture of peak youth violence, the novels protagonist and main character, Alex DeLarge, narrates his tough exploits and experiences as he rapes and pillages pureness throughout the city with the support of his droogs Georgie and Dim. However these escapades would soon come to an end after Alexs droogs betray him and leave him to the authorities. aft(prenominal) being detained, Alex is convicted of murder and meterd to 14 years in prison. A couple years afterward he is chosen by the prison chaplain to undergo an experimental behaviour-modification treatment called the Ludovico Technique in exchange for having the remainder of his sentence commuted. The technique is a public figure of aversion therapy in which Alex was to cause an injection that made him aspect sick while ceremonial occasion graphically violent films, in the end conditioning him to suffer from illness at the mere pattern of violence. And this is where one of the major themes of t...