In the movie A Clockwork Orange, Alex DeLarge claims he wants to be good again after he brutally murders a woman. He chooses to go through the new treatment, the Ludovico Technique, which, through classical conditioning, promises to rid him of his violent nature. He is given serum that makes him feel physically ill after seeing videos of people getting beaten or raped. This is the unconditioned stimulus, which means that it creates a reaction even though there are no past experiences with it. The conditioned stimulus was the violent images that were shown to Alex. The serum and the images created the unconditioned response, which was his reaction to the film (nausea). Alex was tested with an man who proceeded to punch him and a naked woman, both to which Alex proved his conditioning had worked. But does this treatment really make him “good” again or is a temporary stop to his violent nature?
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