Exploring 'A Clockwork Orange's' Provocative Exploration of Individual Freedom
and Institutional Control's' Duality Unleashed"
"A Clockwork Orange" by Stanley Kubrick depicts a dystopian society that poses challenging queries about human autonomy, free will, and the influence of the state.
Kubrick crafts a challenging argument that questions our conceptions of morality, human agency, and the harmony between personal liberties and state control through a meticulously designed storyline and arresting visual components. The main goals of this rhetorical analysis are to look at the movie's topics and explain how Kubrick uses different filmmaking methods to back up his claims. In "A Clockwork Orange," Stanley
Kubrick argues that true moral agency requires the freedom to choose
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Alex, the protagonist of the movie, exhibits anarchic and rebellious conduct, which contrasts with their surroundings to show the conflict between social order and individual freedom.
Kubrick uses the figure of Alex as a means of exploring free choice and the effects of denying people the opportunity to make their own decisions. Due to his inherent ability for both good and evil, Alex is a character with a murky morality. Kubrick poses the question of whether real moral development and salvation are conceivable in the absence of choice-making through his violent crimes and later attempts at rehabilitation. The primary method of control in the movie is represented by The Ludovico
Technique, an aversion treatment technique used on Alex. The strategy deprives Alex of his capacity to act on his natural tendencies by teaching him to feel intense discomfort in response to violence. Kubrick used this approach to highlight the risks of removing people's capacity for free will, contending that the destruction of evil without the ability to make decisions leads to a life that is hollow and ethically