A Clockwork Orange Research Paper
Freedom is appealing because it defends choice. In choosing, one grows to the beat of her own individuality. In the novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess creates a character, Alex, who chooses evil over goodness, until he is arrested and stripped of his free will. Within prison, he is chosen to be the first participant of the Ludovico Technique, an approach that is suggested to rapidly yield promising results, by which he becomes forced to be sickened by violence and by the music of Beethoven, both in which he found joy. His delightful music was caught in the middle of the plan to rid him of his violent actions, and, thus, it became apparent that this sacrifice was inhumane. This paper will prove the importance of free will in the
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. . [with] no power of choice any longer[,] . . . [as he is] committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good’" (Burgess 174). Morris describes those of a zombie like society as “Each [person] . . . is a little clockwork orange making up the whole of one great clockwork orange.” Explained in “A Clockwork Orange Resucked,” the saying “clockwork orange” is known to older Londoners, as the phrase is used to refer to someone who is “queer to the limit of queerness” (Burgess). Tilton observes that the nature of man is the clockwork of an orange, or man, as a “Man’s clockwork is the steady, rhythmic heartbeat of his psychic life, the tick and the tock of his good and evil urges.” In the interfering of “Alex’s natural clockwork,” the balance and overall functioning of both the good and evil that manifests itself inside of him is left damaged (Tilton). There are parts inside of every individual that have the potential to be virtuous or corrupt, as “good and evil are of the self” (Tilton), while there are alternative paths that may be taken throughout life, one cannot control how things happen
. . [with] no power of choice any longer[,] . . . [as he is] committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good’" (Burgess 174). Morris describes those of a zombie like society as “Each [person] . . . is a little clockwork orange making up the whole of one great clockwork orange.” Explained in “A Clockwork Orange Resucked,” the saying “clockwork orange” is known to older Londoners, as the phrase is used to refer to someone who is “queer to the limit of queerness” (Burgess). Tilton observes that the nature of man is the clockwork of an orange, or man, as a “Man’s clockwork is the steady, rhythmic heartbeat of his psychic life, the tick and the tock of his good and evil urges.” In the interfering of “Alex’s natural clockwork,” the balance and overall functioning of both the good and evil that manifests itself inside of him is left damaged (Tilton). There are parts inside of every individual that have the potential to be virtuous or corrupt, as “good and evil are of the self” (Tilton), while there are alternative paths that may be taken throughout life, one cannot control how things happen