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From the very beginning of 'A Clockwork Orange' we are aligned with Alex, we are forced into his mind frame through his on going narration and therefore align with him as he is the only point of reference. Due to us making this instant alignment with Alex we join him in his acts of violence and are then punished with him and must share his feelings. Whilst Alex is being punished for his actions in the treatment sequence we are punished in the same ways. Similar to Alex, we find everything to be less enjoyable in this sequence, as he finds watching rape and violence less enjoyable. We are ultimately being punished for taking part in watching the previous scenes when we have watched Alex commit violence towards women. Both the spectator and Alex are both in this scene being denied of the pleasure of the images they're watching. 

During this scene, we are still aligned with Alex and us as spectators have came on a journey with Alex as we have aligned with him from the beginning and always depicted him as the main character and therefore we share similar feelings with him when he is being punished and when he can picture himself in the film with these women again and we are therefore happy for him when he is cured due to Kubrick’s manipulation of close up’s of Alex, allowing the spectator to explore his point of views and reasons for everything he does and therefore we do not feel as spectators that Alex deserves this punishment as the spectator has been shown the motives behind his behaviour, however this is not to say that we like Alex’s  behaviour or what he has done throughout the movie such as raping and beating up the ‘tramp’, but Kubrick has allowed us to adhere to his point of view and therefore we do not see these ‘acts’ to be as bad as they could be positioned as we have been manipulated by being denied the women’s point of view and the camera angles and how Alex is depicted throughout the film as a young, innocent and naïve troubled boy.

During the “Home Invasion” scene of a clockwork orange, the spectator is positioned alongside Alex to view the attack and the people involved in the same way he does. The woman attacked in the scene becomes an object to characters and the spectator before the attack even begins. She is sat away from her husband while he is working, he is older than her and she obediently answers the door when he looks to her. This is a representation of “The ideal woman” she is quiet and obeys the males in her life. Not only this but when she speaks to Alex through the door, there are mirrors surrounding her which allow the audience to see every aspect of her body. All of this relates to Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze theory. Mulvey says that women in film are viewed through the eyes of a heterosexual male and their roles are passive while a male’s role is active. This is certainly present as the only things the woman in this scene does are because she is made to or asked to by a man. Mulvey also says that women act as an erotic object for the characters within the film and also for the spectator. Because w are aligned with Alex, we do see the woman in this scene as an object and feel very little sympathy for her.