lex's parents give to him in his home-life, it is obvious that they did not offer much love to the growing child. By Freud's belief, if the child does not receive the proper love from a mother that it should, it will find other means to replace the comfort that a mother provides. Alex's comfort was the violence and the pleasure brought from a night completed. There is no reference in the movie about Alex's parents being his natural born parents, or if one of them died and remarried. My beliefs are that Alex's natural born mother was beaten and eventually left his father. Alex was in the middle of this action, and like Bandura's findings, the child imitates the action that he views and takes it as natural, thus using it in everyday life. Alex's aggression upon society are truly the natural urges and feelings that he experiences, thus making him normal, being unaware of the wrongs that his violence induces. In a Freudian aspect, this could explain a vast majority of his aggression that he displays. His actions interpret his hatred towards his father for being the reason he lacks a parental security blanket. As quoted in one of the first few scenes: "…and in the mess of wobbly chaos the drunken old malchek had found himself lying in, he had managed to be able to push out an ugly lyric or two. Now, the one thing that I truly hate in the world is a drunken old malchek singing out the songs of his father with an occasional "blurp,blurp" in between.", this shows his loath for 1) Disrespect for music. 2) Drunks, and 3) Men in his fathers image. The music was his salvation, for it could snap him in and out of his dementia. The music was used in a pseudo-Pavlov experiment to eliminate Alex's love for violence. In the experiment, Alex ingested a serum that would induce a deathlike paralysis. While the serum was taking effect, he was bombarded with sights of violence and the sweet sounds of Ludwig Van Beethoven, both leaving an impression in ...
