Clockwork Orange: A Little More Extreme Than Pavlov

Classical Conditioning, a concept made famous by Pavlov's experiments with dogs' anticipation of food, is demonstrated at an extreme of its possibilities in the movie A Clockwork Orange. The protagonist of the movie, a young teen named Alex, is convicted at the age of fourteen for the rape and murder of a woman. Without viewing the whole movie it is a little difficult to judge Alex's personality (in the scenes viewed in class he seems to alternate back and forth between sociopathic tendencies and a genuine interest in being able to be a "good" member of society) so this is an issue I will steer clear of focusing instead on the methods used to "improve" Alex.
Alex is put through classical conditioning in which the shot is the unconditioned stimulus, the sickness the unconditioned response and the violence Alex loves so much is the neutral stimulus. After being put through the experiments Alex is conditioned to associate violence and sickness so now the thought of violence makes him sick. Violence is now the conditioned response. It could be argued that this conditioning may eventually lead to operant conditioning as Alex is continually "punished" by violent decisions which eventually may make him a better person by choice but that would remain to be seen. A Clockwork Orange may be slightly over the top but it is undeniably an exceptional example of classical conditioning.