Journal Entry – A Clockwork Orange

Journal Entry 3 A Clockwork Orange Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange, carries some themes prevalent to the time- period of the novels release. In a futuristic city governed by a repressive totalitarian super-state, pieces have become machines or lower animals. The main protagonist of the story, Alex, asserts his free pull up stakes by deciding to live a life of debauchery and violence before beingness robbed of his free-will by the government. When A Clockwork Orange was written the war against Communism was at its peak.With many countries such as Russia and Cuba spreading communism to different move of the orld, the fear of depriving an individuals free-will in light of the public was set in with the joined enounces and its ally forces. Free-will then despite its predication that individuals such as Alex feces brand the choice of being wicked can also make the choice as a moral agent to do well. Without those choices the human-act of good-will/ good becomes nothing more th an a shallow behavior. In the etymon of the novel, Alex merely appears to be a mindless brute, with his thoughts and behaviors geared strictly towards vehement behavior.It is not until he returns home and his post- orrectional officer, Deltoid, enters into his apartment and confronts Alex on his behavior that his views on free-will are made clear after Deltoid leaves, Alex dismissed Deltoids apprehension, and states that a government that does not allow its citizens to act badly is a big businessman of authority that robs people of their free-will. Subsequent Alexs attempt to rob an older ladys home, Alex enters the Stala State Jail where he is sentenced fourteen years in prison. It is there that Alex begins the adjoin of being robbed of his free-will. He is stripped of his clothes and his name.He is given a prison Jump-suit and a number, 6655321. However, despite Alexs confinement, he is still allowed to partake in his integrity enjoyment, Classical Music. The prison Chaplain who took an interest into Alex allowed him to read the Bible while hearing to Classical Music. During his confinement Alex participates in a program known as Reclamation Treatment. Being successfully selected for use of the program, Alex goes through behavioral reconditioning and loses his will for violence and his love for Classical Music. Becoming a baseless human being, re-programmed by the government, Alex has lost his free-will and humanity.It is not until the end of the novel that Alexs free-will is restored through the verso of the reconditioning that was done to him. When Alex met Peetie again at a coffee shop and his wife, he realizes how much Peetie had grown and recants his own views on violence and classical practice of medicine even. This leads to Alex thinking of his future and the following generation through the scope of his future-son and realizes free-will is the accelerator pedal to human-natureuncontrolled and responsible for its own mistakes. It is at this point Alex truly becomes a complete human being. Journal Entry A Clockwork Orange By pkmaximum