Analysis of Humanism in Clockwork Orange By: Removed For Privacy 02/02/2003 Human emotions, desires, and flaws are often subjects of focus in cinematography. From the basest desires of greed and hatred to the shining examples of purity and logic, man is painted in almost every manner imaginable. Stanley Kubrick, a master at depicting man's more twisted nature, offers a very dark view indeed, of what may lay in the future of humanity. The morally derelict future …showed first 75 words of 1200 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1200 total…to both dislike and sympathize with Alex de Large, to measure the value of free-will against the safety of society, Kubrick puts the focus on issues that are as applicable now as they were thirty-two years ago when the film was made. Is free-will bent to evil means, better than no free-will at all? Is a conditioned and institutionalized society unavoidable? These are questions that modern society has yet to answer, despite their obvious pertinence.