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Society allows people to believe that they have free will, but instead of granting people their own freedoms they are, in fact, limiting their choices and controlling their actions. In Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange , society limits peoples’ freedoms in the name of safety. They allow people to make choices as long as it is within certain boundaries for society. These boundaries are enforced to regulate the dangerous atmosphere and to protect communities. In the novel Alex represents the “self” which is individualism and unchanged. Oppositely, places such as schools and jails represent the “not-self” which is conformed and controlled to be morally good. Moreover, the authoritative figures give Alex his “freedom” from prison, the Ludovico Treatment simply imprisons who he really is. Although society gives people their freedoms, they actually put limits on their choices to try and control peoples’ actions in order to maintain a crimeless and moral society. Alex and his “droogies” are young men who like to bring about trouble. They steal things, rape and kill people simply because they enjoy it. While Alex is talking to P. R. Deltoid about a murder the pervious night Alex thinks,“ I do bad, what with crasting and tolchocks and carves with the britva and the old in-out-in-out, O my little brothers and you can’t run a country with every chelloveck comporting himself in my manner of the night....as P.R. Deltoid so kindly warns, next time, in spite of the great tenderness of my summers, brothers, it’s the great unearthly zoo itself, well I say: ‘Fair, but a pity my lords, because I just cannot bear to be shut in’”(Burgess 40). Alex, like everyone else, do not want to be controlled or told what to do.
Approximate Word count = 1140
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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