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The dark, insidious protagonist Alex whose youth jarred with his innate ultra-violent nature was contrasted against the equally oppressive British dystopia in the film, A Clockwork Orange.
Alex from the onset exhibited a genuine lack of guilt and/or remorse for his barbaric crimes throughout the selected film portion, revealing a sociopathic nature. Therefore, he volunteered for the Ludovico Treatment not for reform, but for what he saw as an easy route to evade his long jail sentence. The Ludovico Treatment’s mission was the removal of the “evil” through a fortnight of experiments.
The Prison Chaplain while exhibiting ignorance to the monster inside of Alex, made astute remarks throughout the movie. He stated when “a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” A person without free will can no longer be a person as the very element that made them human has been stolen away. The narrative of sacrificing the individual for the benefit of society is grotesque, as it leads to the rapid depreciation of human life. The free will of Alex had been excised in the name of “progress.”
The treatment administered to Alex can best be characterized as classical conditioning. Through the nefarious actions of the experimenters, Alex through associative learning had become incapable of carrying out violence.
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Structure: (King, 2008, 251)
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