Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange

What was once a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, has be cause a good deal more than just that. It only started when screenplay writer Terry gray gave Stanley Kubrick a copy of the novel, but, meddling with another incumbency, Kubrick put it aside. Although bring out of sight and out of melodic theme for Kubrick, his wife decided to discombobulate the novel a canvas and insisted Kubrick do the same. It had an immediate impaction on him. Of his enthusiasm for it, Kubrick said,\nI was excited by everything rough it: The plot, the ideas, the characters, and, of course, the language. The story functions, of course, on several(prenominal) levels: Political, sociological, philosophical, and, whats most important, on a dreamlike psychological-symbolic level. Kubrick wrote a screenplay penny-pinching to the novel, saying, I think some(prenominal) Burgess had to say virtually the story was said in the book, but I did cook up a few multipurpose narrative i deas and reshape some of the scenes. (The Clockwork Controversy)\nSet in a near future slope society that has a subculture of innate youth violence, the novels protagonist and main character, Alex DeLarge, narrates his blood-red exploits and experiences as he rapes and pillages sinlessness throughout the city with the attend to 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. after(prenominal) being detained, Alex is convicted of murder and doomd to 14 years in prison. A couple years after 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 throw of aversion therapy in which Alex was to satisfy an injection that made him see sick while notice graphically violent films, ultimately conditioning him to suffer from sickness a t the mere theory of violence. And this is where one of the major themes of t...