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A Clockwork Orange Film Analysis

Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange was a deeply disturbing depiction of human nature that shed light onto dark thoughts in the character's soul. Alex seems to have no regard for human decency or human life. He and his gang of friends kill at will. They have no purpose for their violent outbursts other than to shock and degrade their victims. They have fun making others suffer.
This is the logic that is upheld by Friedrich Nietzsche in his approval of Prosper Merimee's statement "Know that nothing is more common than to do harm for the pleasure of doing it." Though he does believe that most men try to deny this by never outwardly expressing any violent tendencies. I think that Nietzsche also sums up my feelings towards Alex in the "Innocence of So-called Evil Actions" section. He says "All actions are motivated by the drive of the individual's intention to gain pleasure and avoid unpleasure; thus they are motivated, but they are not evil." I......

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