#Clockwork orange narrator free

The chaplain takes Alex under his wing after Alex shows an interest in the Bible, and tries to convince Alex not to undergo Ludovico's Technique.

#Clockwork orange narrator free

The chaplain is a mouthpiece for many of Burgess's ideas on free will, namely that ''goodness is something chosen'' and that without it, man ceases to be human. Likewise, he and the Government use mass media to penetrate subliminally the minds of London's working population. The solution is a purely pragmatic one designed to rid the streets of criminals and free up prison space for political prisoners he ignores the loss of free will on the part of the criminals. He orders Alex undergo Ludivico's Technique, believing prisoners need to be cured of their reflex. The most pervasive antagonist in a novel filled with them, the Minister of the Interior symbolizes the repressive, totalitarian influence of the socialist government, or the Government, as it is called in the novel.

His goodness is inauthentic, and only in the final chapter of the novel does he outgrow his immature tendencies toward violence and decide to join the world of adulthood. Even his capacity to enjoy classical music is gone. He becomes, in the novel's central image, a 'clockwork orange,' a human deprived of free will and reduced to a deterministic mechanism. The central question in the novel - whether forced goodness is better than chosen evil - pivots around Alex's behavior when he undergoes Ludovico's Technique in Part Two. He runs rampant over London with his gang of Dim, Pete, and Georgie, his name containing three relevant meanings: the allusion to Alexander the Great (Alex is the gang's leader), the Latinate meaning of 'without law' ('A-lex'), and the allusion to Alex's creative use of nadsat-based slang (a 'lexicon' is a dictionary). Alex, the teenage anti-heroic protagonist and narrator of the novel, is addicted to two things: violence and classical music.