a clockwork orange by anthony burgess Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some ways better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Our narrator, Alex, has been incarcerated into a massive overstuffed federal state prison with six prisoners per two person cells. Alex has a small job of playing music during mass and through this, he gained the special favor of the main priest by snitching on other inmates. Through his job, he has also gained an interest in the blood, sex, guts, and gore depicted in the bible. Prison life is every man for himself and is survival of the fittest. In this part of the story, I see many similarities to modern American life. In the United States prison system, many penitentiaries have a set quota of occupancy which causes them to overpopulate prisons beyond their capacity. It is not unheard of for guards and wardens to be overly abusive and corrupt such as the ones shown in the novel. The topics of the book focus on humanity and morality. A new dangerous experimental scientific method has been devised that forces people to be good. Alex volunteers himself for this procedure in hopes that he will be able to shorten his sentence. One lingering question remains: Is it moral to force people to become good?
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