Power Pyramids and Pecking Orders in ‘A Clockwork Orange’

Being that A Clockwork Orange is inherently about power — Alex starts the film with it, augments it with rape and violence then loses it by the same means — it makes sense Kubrick would want to frame his film in a structure of power, and pyramids were the route he went.

By: Rob Ager

Website: Collative Learning

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