Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A Clockwork Orange and the issue of forced kindness.

After Alex is finally reformed due to the Ludovico technique, he is released back into the normal world. Here we are shown the true kindness of humanity. Every person Alex had met prior to his incarceration has turned against him, friends and family alike. They rather beat him, rape him or force him to try to commit suicide.

This shows us the moral of forcing someone to be one way. As the rest of the world does not work in a shade of white or black, forcing a man to be at such will destroy them as it impede's their ability to react. This can be seen when the old man, who Alex attacked prior to his incarceration, attacks Alex in the library and Alex has no choice but to beaten by him. Despite Alex having paid for his crime. This shows that even the "good" people Alex was reformed to co-operate with are not perfectly innocent and thus that the Ludovico technique is in essence a failure.

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