Free Will In A Clockwork Orange

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Alex portrays no moral value during the novella, “A Clockwork Orange”. He does however have the choice to change his situation, which is something that Atticus Finch and Thomas More don’t have, because they can’t live with their conscience. The question, “What’s it going to be then, eh?” (Burgess, 2011: 3, 57, 97), is used at the beginning of every part of the novella. This question marks the significance that free will and the ability to choose has in this novella. This question is sometimes asked by Alex, and also to Alex, which shows that he is the one who is deciding what his fate is going to be. His free will is taken away from him during the second part of the novella when he undergoes the Ludovico treatment. The Ludovico treatment “controls”