A Clockwork Orange Themes

A Clockwork Orange highlights the question of whether people are destined to their fate, or whether free will and external circumstances can influence people's outcomes. Alex believes that humans a...

The central message of A Clockwork Orange seems to be that the freedom to choose (good or evil) is fundamental to mankind. Indeed, this element of moral choice distinguishes humans from machines an...

The Government in A Clockwork Orange will do anything to ensure its own survival—as well as the stability of the State. To that end, it employs questionable scientific techniques in order to mani...

The battle between good and evil gets complicated in A Clockwork Orange, because the novel really presents the battle between forced good and chosen evil. Who is better: someone incapable of doing...

In A Clockwork Orange, the Government seeks to suppress individuals and individual choice in favor of the stability of the State, largely to ensure its own survival. Towards this end, the Governmen...

Burgess values transformation and has famously said that a book without a hint of "moral progress" or personal transformation has no point and is better left unwritten. Yeah: A Clockwork Orange is...

Violence and instances of criminality are ubiquitous in A Clockwork Orange. In just a few chapters, Alex and his entourage have performed every trick in the criminal's book: doing drugs, mugging, r...

Language, specifically nadsat, has an important several important functions in A Clockwork Orange. First, it works as a literary device that seeks to temporarily alienate the reader from the world...