A Clockwork Orange – Essay Personal Freedom In Anthony Burgess’s shocking A Clockwork Orange, we are presented with a protagonist named Alex, who elects a course of violent conduct against the simplest and most vulnerable members of society. His victims included an elderly women, a middle-aged man, a shopkeeper, two young girls, and a married couple to name just a few. In a night of rampaging Alex beat, raped, robbed and killed his victims, committing …showed first 75 words of 1057 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1057 total…like Alex who could one day live in my community. I was not as concerned with the protagonist’s right to make free choices regarding his own conduct, as I was about society’s rights’ to take actions to limit his behavior. Burgess however, was equally repulsed by the government’s attempt at “reclamation” through controlling Alex’s ability to make free choices, as he was by the wrong choices that Alex made while on