In depicting Alex murdering a woman with a gigantic phallic symbol, Kubrick is not taking pleasure in the act or encouraging us to do so; rather, he is showing us a rather extreme, aestheticized reflection of the relations between men and women in society, as the artist perceived them. What a Clockwork Orange, then, presents us with is an aestheticized version of violence that comes about not merely as a means of social control, but as the result of relations between men and women that have been strictly codified by norms of gender that are then left unquestioned.
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