Allusions In A Clockwork Orange

He believed that “how [humans] live is so far removed from how we ought to live,” and that does not help us learn and

Billboard chart-topper for two weeks running December 9th-16th 1989 (Billboard). Billy Joel. The song is historically correct, and different compared to Joel’s other songs. Although the song is different from his others and has many historical references “We didn 't start the fire” is still a catchy song. Billy Joel had two inspirations, Tin Pan Alley, and The Beatles.

In Bishop Tod Brown’s letter to the church of Orange titled, “Reverencing and Defending the Value of All Human Life,” Bishop Brown writes to his dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord to subtlety persuade them to vote yes for proposition 85. Through diction, tone, and allusions, Bishop Brown, carefully and effectively nudges and sways his people of the Church to choose a certain position on certain propositions in the upcoming election. Without stating out straight forward his bare message, Bishop Brown uses certain words to appeal to his audience, a seemingly holy and encouraging tone of importance, and careful allusions to reach out to his people and guide them in a certain direction. Through diction and tone, Bishop Brown is able to sway his fellow people into seeing things a certain way. By using “loaded” words, or

In many of these allusions, the creature is found referencing some work of this particular time period. The creature can be cited as referencing Paradise Lost throughout the novel, and it plays a key component in his understanding of his existence, as well as the allusions that he experiences. The creature quotes, "But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam 's supplication to his Creator. But where is mine?"(pg.155) Upon reading this work, the creature opened his mind to moore philosophical perspectives as he puts his existence under constant evaluation and analysis.

Each soul born into this life affects people and makes contributions in their sphere of influence. While some people contribute in positive ways striving each day to be kind, caring for others and upholding high morals and standards of society, others seem destined to pass each day hurting people while breaking society's written and unwritten rules for behavior. Free will gives people the capacity to make daily decisions that will determine their destiny and allows people to choose “good over evil.” The idea of free will is also known as tishmel, a Hebrew word meaning “Thou mayest” choose. Tishmel is a significant word to humankind because it offers hope of redemption for all souls.

In St. Augustine’s Confessions the origin of freewill is found as Augustine describes the ways in which humans are evil because of our ability to make the decision to sin. Augustine affirms that, although God is omniscient, humans can still make conscious decisions along

The title of the short story is “The Yellow Wallpaper” and in fact, the vile wallpaper that the narrator hates is a huge ideogram in the story. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. As the narrator she goes on to tell a story of how she lived with her caring husband who is also her physician after giving birth. Even though she may be a woman with a high social placement, the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” goes insane for many different reasons such as tonics, depression and isolation. To start with she is constantly having to take tonic’s each hour in the day.

Hemingway uses details of natural and manufactured setting to foreshadow nick and marjories break up and to emphasize their differences. As nick and marjorie pass through Hortons Bay, there are several ways Hemingway foreshadows the break up by marjorie talking about their old ruin and nick responds by saying "there it is. " Marjorie has a different viewpoint on the relationship rather then nick. Marjorie also said "It seems more like a castle" while nick responds by saying nothing. Marjorie is viewing this like a fairy tale.

Perhaps, if he was a minister, he might go so far as to consider it his ‘mission statement’. It is obvious the philosopher believes we have no control over our destiny. In his collected writings, known as The Handbook, he tells us we are merely ‘actors in a play [we] did not write.’ (788) He believes we must accept our parts and fulfill them to the best of our abilities, whether our lives be long or short, happy or filled with misery.

In the meantime religious is of significance as a guidance for secular life that The Bible regulate human’s conduct such as the Ten Commandments (Aitken1968). God presents the objective moral values in the world. In terms of the Christian theist, it reflects to the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. ‘They make the existence of a god more probable than it would have been without them’ and hence produce a defensible argument from morality to the existence of God (Mackie 1982, 115-6). From Richard Dawkins’s perspective, our morality has a Darwinian explanation that ‘altruistic genes, selected through the process of evolution, give people natural empathy’ (Dawkins 2009, 209-226).

Today, this would sound awful and would be awful. Even the protagonist in the novel knows this and states, “We are the dead” (Orwell 176) and “We are not human” (165). In Brave New World, the society to them is beautiful. The pleasure of sex and taking drugs is beautiful. This is all based on humanistic beliefs and not biblical ones.

However, the Humanists believed differently, they emphasized what the man can do himself and for others; this is how they please God (Lawson “The Revolutionary Period and the Age of Reason Background”). In present day, it seems that humanity does good deeds to help make a better world; however, people can be selfish and afraid of consequences that make them do well for themselves in certain situations.

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?” (Burgess 95). In A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess suggests that man struggles with choice. Though it is those struggles and choices made from grappling that make man human.

Reflecting on scriptural reference, we find a flaw within this theory, the thought of a being having little free will. As is said in James 4:7, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (KJV).” These words do not convey a message that perceives one to lack control of their lives outcome, but instead they show we have a choice in which direction we go. Moreover, it would seem that theory reflects on the deep rooted issues of the inner life, in conjunction with passing blame onto the childhood past (Nevid, 2015, p. 9).

Based on the Garden of Eden story, humans have various features from different aspects. Human nature is the typical characteristics that human beings are born with. It is inherent and unavoidable. Some of the characteristics are good and some are not. When humans face a choice in a situation, how to make a decision will reflect their humanities.