A Clockwork Orange

Alex is wheeled into a room equipped like a movie theater. He is strapped to a chair, and clips are put on his eyelids to keep them forced open. He finally meets Dr. Brodsky, who is both fat and fashionable in Alex’s view. After brief introductions, the film begins, and Alex witnesses multiple horrors, from a man being beaten nearly to death to a woman being gang-raped. At first, he responds as expected, excited by the blood and chaos. After a while, however, he starts to feel uncomfortable: “I began to feel sick. I had like pains all over and felt I could sick up and at the same time not sick up, and I began to feel like in distress” (119). He is finally shown footage of Japanese atrocities committed during World War II, and he loses his composure, yelling for Dr. Brodsky to stop the film. Dr. Brodsky replies, “Stop it? Stop it, did you say? Why, we’ve hardly started.” He and the other staff members laugh at Alex.

Alex endures the rest of the session in pain and discomfort before being wheeled back to his room. Soon, though, he starts to feel a bit better and Dr.