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... Without choice, as the Chaplain from A Clockwork Orange says, a man ceases to be. So what if, hypothetically, the ability to choose is taken away from a man? ... After these two deaths Mary married a man named Percy. ... In her nightmare she “saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion” (Bloom p. ... This character must also convey a certain stylistic language that is able to “reveal or depict the movement and actions of a man’s mind. ...
The story in Frankenstein is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who creates an unnamed monster through the use of dead body parts, chemicals, and electricity. ... The person who Frankenstein meets is a blind old man to whom the monster reads to. Then one day the old man’s family comes home and kicks the monster out of their house. ... In other words, the government turned Alex from a normal, decision-making boy who was just looking for a good time, to a boy who loses the power to choose. ... This theme is that the monster’s ability to choose his fate is taken away because of his creator’s ambition. ... As Samuel Coale states, “What Burgess points to here is a reality of chaos and control , the two contenders for man’s soul, constantly and irrevocably at war with one another” (Coale p. ... Although his attempt was unsuccessful, it showed what can happen to someone during a period of mental instability and during a period of not being able to choose what one believes in. ... That point of contact descending to the ground (in the mirror) shows when Alex cannot choose the path of life and his demise from there on. ...
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? ... Being denied the ability to choose your fate is being denied a right that every living creature is born with. ... Alex, a monster created by society, was blinded by his desire to be free and therefore chose to be turned into a man without choice. ... Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
Approximate Word count = 2676
Approximate Pages = 10.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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