Clockwork Orange- Personal Response

I never wanted to be one of the people who posted their homework as blogs. Honestly, with a few exceptions, that's really lame. But I guess I was in more of a bloggy mood when I wrote this. Anyway, this is my Personal Response for my MPJ on the last section of A Clockwork Orange.

I really liked this book. Overall I think it showed some very good points. To think that being a horrible person is harmful, but being a “perfect person” can also be harmful. I myself cannot completely decide if there is more evil in crime and violence or in oppression and domination of a persons spiritual existence. Granted Alex didn’t seem to have much of a moral standard on anything, but what Anthony Burgess was getting to was clearly not on the specifics of his character, Alex. Really it all comes down to whether or not you believe free will is best including the possibility of chaos… Or if you think free will should be limited to those who society regards as a proper citizen. I guess when it boils down to that question I would chose the limits on free will. Though, I suppose if that wasn’t the usual decision the world would have no use or want for a organized government of any kind. In A Clockwork Orange the author shows an example of what could possibly happen in a world of anarchy. On the other side he also shows what horrible things could happen if we were all fully controlled and conditioned by the government. Basically… It’s not a perfect world. No one is ever going to be completely satisfied. Utopia is fiction, through and through.

Next I would like to share a personal discovery I recently made about oranges. I do not like them. I sat in 6th period Philosophy the other day, eating an orange. At least I was trying to eat one… I’m rather particular about the way I eat my food. It has to be done in a specific way or it doesn’t feel right. I am not a sloppy eater. I drill little wholes through the peel with my finger nails, around the circumference of the fruit. Each circle is about � an inch apart from the next. After that I go back and take out the peel bits between my circles. Then, very carefully, I peel off one side of the orange as one piece. This is very difficult and I often wish I had more than two tries at it. If one of the sides rips I rip it into tiny bits and put it in the other side(now functioning as a bowl) I then begin to peel all those annoying little white bits from around the orange. All of them. I’m fairly certain I don’t pay that close attention to anything else I eat. But for some reason I do so when it comes to oranges. When I have all those pieces off the surface of my orange I break it down into it’s wedge like sections. I then go to work at pulling off all the little white bits from the insides, between the wedges. Finally once I’m finished, I carefully tear into the inner skin of each the orange slice. Once I have exposed the inner morsels of the fruit, I finally, eat the orange. Then, I move onto the next slice. The whole process takes about an hour. After spending almost the whole time In philosophy working on my orange, I came to the conclusion that they are simply more trouble than they are worth. I don’t like oranges.

And for the record… I don’t like clocks either.