A Clockwork Orange Free Will
A Clockwork Orange is an interpretation of a book by Anthony Burgess of the same name. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, the film A ClockWork Orange is an incredible film that talks about the morals of prison, free will, and political coercion. The main character of the film is a young man which by day is a high school student, and by night the leader of a gang that rapes and brutally assults inisant people. By night Alex DeLarge is exercising his free will as he does whatever he wants. But this asks the question, what would be a fair punishment for such crimes? It’s certainly considered immoral to rape and violently assault people in their very own homes. But is it then considered moral to steal someone's free will? These questions genuinely
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When Alex is in prison for what he had done he volunteered to be the test subject in a new experiment that provoked him to act negatively towards sexual pleasure, anger, and violence. Put simply, everything he did when he exercised his free will. After the treatment Alex was no longer able to make the decision to do these things, and he was thus stripped of his free will. Alex chose to be apart of the experiment, but the type of treatment he undergoes was involuntary. The prison chaplain was strongly against the new treatment as he thought it deprived the patient of any real choice “Choice! The boy has no real choice, has he? Self interest, fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.” When Alex is released from treatment I began to agree more and more with the prison chaplain. Alex is left defenceless from the treatment. Those he attacked prior to his treatment all seem to find a way to get revenge on Alex for what he did to them. I ask myself this question, do I feel sorry for Alex now, even after all he has done? Eventually Alex can no longer bear it. Not the attacks, but the the way the treatment stole his free, and thus he attempts a
When Alex is in prison for what he had done he volunteered to be the test subject in a new experiment that provoked him to act negatively towards sexual pleasure, anger, and violence. Put simply, everything he did when he exercised his free will. After the treatment Alex was no longer able to make the decision to do these things, and he was thus stripped of his free will. Alex chose to be apart of the experiment, but the type of treatment he undergoes was involuntary. The prison chaplain was strongly against the new treatment as he thought it deprived the patient of any real choice “Choice! The boy has no real choice, has he? Self interest, fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.” When Alex is released from treatment I began to agree more and more with the prison chaplain. Alex is left defenceless from the treatment. Those he attacked prior to his treatment all seem to find a way to get revenge on Alex for what he did to them. I ask myself this question, do I feel sorry for Alex now, even after all he has done? Eventually Alex can no longer bear it. Not the attacks, but the the way the treatment stole his free, and thus he attempts a