Free Will In A Clockwork Orange

We as Americans are the monkeys, what we see, is what we do whether it’s out of curiosity or just being influenced by everything around us. We adapt to our surrounding and become followers. Our actions are usually in the norm of what society sees throughout the media, are based on what we perceived to be right and wrong from those who raised us, the lack of attention we receive, or those that we surround ourselves with. An individual is easily influenced, take Alex from A Clockwork Orange for instance; media, lack of parenting, his environment, as well as those he surrounded himself with all had a contributing factor as to what provoked his violent, aggressive, and malice tendencies. “It seems today, that all you see is violence and movies, and sex on T.V. but where …show more content…
Through the use of nadsat (the language they speak) they sound very kiddish at times. The whole book is focused on the question of free will. Alex and his peers use complete free will in all of their decisions, which is why there is a schism between the normal people and all of the gangs. The normal people are "A clockwork oranges", they are mechanical in the way they think and act because the government has made it this way. But since Alex and his droogs use their free will they choose to be violent instead of sedated and mechanical. “Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till's guts. But, as they say, money isn’t everything.”(Part 1 Chapter 1, Burgess), spoken by Alex he is basically saying that the gang steals and uses violence not because they need to, but simply because they enjoy