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as a savage and Jack as a civilized human being, But when their society’s and surroundings affect them each of them becomes what the other was. Alex becomes unable to commit evil and Jack assumes leadership of a savage group that commits acts of brutality.
Alex and his “droogs” set the town ablaze by committing horrific acts of violence. He loves doing what his society says is wrong. During one of their night rides, Alex and his droogs, ripped out an old man’s teeth. Then to show real malice crunched them under his boot. If that was not enough they then treated the old man to a knuckle sandwich (Burgess 7). Torturing old people is just one of there outrageous escapades. Another incident is when Alex and his droogs broke into this couples house. After beating up the husband he turned to his wife. “O my brother while I got untrussed and got ready for plunge. Plunging, I could slooshy cries of agony and this writer bleeding veck that Georgie ...

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It conditions him against anything morally repugnant”(url http://wwwmembers). Now Alex is forced to refrain from his evil ways. Whenever he attempts to view of commit an act, which the doctors have programmed to think is wrong he feels intense sickness. The feeling of illness is so intense it is paralyzing. Now he is unable to do evil. “…Alex also loses his one redeeming feature, a fondness for Beethoven. Jack’s change begins in the heat of the hunt. Jack and his some of his fellow choirboys, armed with spears, set off into the interior jungle. Searching for wild pigs, the boys tap into their savage instincts. Jack enters savagery with the ...

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