What's it going to be then, eh?
I just finished viddying all the slovos in A Clockwork Orange and it's quite a curious malenky bit of writing. I had a bit of a hard time getting it into my rooks, but I read it in 3 days...didn't take very many of my minootas up if you know what I'm getting at. Real horrorshow piece of work.
I don't know, I don't think that A Clockwork Orange was about anarchy like my sister said or that it was filling my head with "bad things" like my parents said. Strangely enough, part of the book is about good and bad. The main character Alex wonders why people try to figure out what causes the bad when they never try to figure out what causes the good. Well I wonder if maybe we should think about what causes the good and that maybe the bad is a just a part of our lives that we have to accept. No one goes through life without experiencing good or bad and defining what exactly those are is a part of it too. I mean, it's not like it's a black and white affair, but we want to dwell on the good things. Like in One Hour Photo when Robin Williams character says that people capture their happy moments in pictures because it's what they want to remember. Well, if it's the good we want to remember then why is it the bad that we wonder where it came from? Maybe we should just marvel upon the good that happens to have befallen us as we make our various journies through life.
I also think that A Clockwork Orange is about growing up. Think about it, society expects us to behave a certain way at a certain age. Based upon the fact that society then created the malchicks who were doing all the bad things, like tolchocking people so they had krovvy coming out of their rots and gullivers, we can assume that society is responsible for fixing them. So they throw the especially nasty people into prison so that they can learn their lesson from that punishment, but the prisons are full because there are so many people doing bad. This has to send out some kind of message to society about what they're allowing generations to grow up with. This isn't one isolated case, a whole generation is doing this in the book. The exception is more of the person who doesn't take part in hurting others.
Anywho, they come up with this new way of doing things: simply take away the person's choice to do violent acts, take away their morals. They can't fight for anything and this in turn forces them to do the opposite and do someting good. Well, now we've got the whole clockwork orange theory. If God plants this tree and we're all fruit growing on it, then the clockwork orange would be the tree altering the fruit so that it grows like clockwork, working with time and well, not on its own time. It would just keep ticking away doing the same thing. This whole plan backfires too and Alex goes back to normal, but in the end, the character is compelled to grow up anyway.
It's almost a little bit of a message of nadsats will be nadsats and they'll grow out of it, or it's a phase, but it makes me think that the things we feel free to do as teenagers or younger generations are not ours to do as we grow up. We can be wild and try crazy things and it's ok because we are young and we have plenty of time to do what we want, but time does tick away like clockwork and while it may be infinite in the grand scheme of things, we do die...everyone does. The fact that Alex is only 18 when he feels he has to grow up also gives me the idea that we want to grow up at a younger age and that at some point we do abandon our idea of freedom and recklessness that is tied to the teenage years. Whether the novel is saying that we should forget our younger vibrance or try to embrace it is your own interpretation, but that's what I observed when I read the book.
I don't know, I don't think that A Clockwork Orange was about anarchy like my sister said or that it was filling my head with "bad things" like my parents said. Strangely enough, part of the book is about good and bad. The main character Alex wonders why people try to figure out what causes the bad when they never try to figure out what causes the good. Well I wonder if maybe we should think about what causes the good and that maybe the bad is a just a part of our lives that we have to accept. No one goes through life without experiencing good or bad and defining what exactly those are is a part of it too. I mean, it's not like it's a black and white affair, but we want to dwell on the good things. Like in One Hour Photo when Robin Williams character says that people capture their happy moments in pictures because it's what they want to remember. Well, if it's the good we want to remember then why is it the bad that we wonder where it came from? Maybe we should just marvel upon the good that happens to have befallen us as we make our various journies through life.
I also think that A Clockwork Orange is about growing up. Think about it, society expects us to behave a certain way at a certain age. Based upon the fact that society then created the malchicks who were doing all the bad things, like tolchocking people so they had krovvy coming out of their rots and gullivers, we can assume that society is responsible for fixing them. So they throw the especially nasty people into prison so that they can learn their lesson from that punishment, but the prisons are full because there are so many people doing bad. This has to send out some kind of message to society about what they're allowing generations to grow up with. This isn't one isolated case, a whole generation is doing this in the book. The exception is more of the person who doesn't take part in hurting others.
Anywho, they come up with this new way of doing things: simply take away the person's choice to do violent acts, take away their morals. They can't fight for anything and this in turn forces them to do the opposite and do someting good. Well, now we've got the whole clockwork orange theory. If God plants this tree and we're all fruit growing on it, then the clockwork orange would be the tree altering the fruit so that it grows like clockwork, working with time and well, not on its own time. It would just keep ticking away doing the same thing. This whole plan backfires too and Alex goes back to normal, but in the end, the character is compelled to grow up anyway.
It's almost a little bit of a message of nadsats will be nadsats and they'll grow out of it, or it's a phase, but it makes me think that the things we feel free to do as teenagers or younger generations are not ours to do as we grow up. We can be wild and try crazy things and it's ok because we are young and we have plenty of time to do what we want, but time does tick away like clockwork and while it may be infinite in the grand scheme of things, we do die...everyone does. The fact that Alex is only 18 when he feels he has to grow up also gives me the idea that we want to grow up at a younger age and that at some point we do abandon our idea of freedom and recklessness that is tied to the teenage years. Whether the novel is saying that we should forget our younger vibrance or try to embrace it is your own interpretation, but that's what I observed when I read the book.