A Clockwork Orange was originally written and published in Britain with twenty-one chapters, when it was released in America the publishers omitted the last chapter and subsequently so did Kubrick when he made the film version. Burgess was unhappy about this as he felt it was the last chapter that shows the change of intention in the protagonist Alex.
Unlike in chapter twenty where Alex is back to his old ways and he says in the very last line of the book "I was cured alright." (3) His character has not moved on and we are not seeing anything different from the beginning of the novel. We can see that he is going to go back to his old life and it will be as if nothing has happened. The Alex at the end of the film is exactly the same as the Alex at the beginning. Also as Burgess has the belief that every male teenager goes through a violent stage but grows out of it he used chapter twenty-one to make this apparent. Alex meets his old friend Pete who has chosen to change, move away from violence and settle down to marry. This encounter with Pete helps Alex to take a look at his own life and he begins to think about how he would like his life to be. Alex thinks about how it would be to be married and have children. It is in this chapter that the moral of the story is brought about. Alex is free to choose for himself and he is not being made to choose between good and bad through any type of therapy. .
Throughout the novel and the film the issue of choice is rammed down the readers/viewers throat. "What is it going to be then?" (4) The question asked by Alex throughout. The Chaplin in the prision asks the same question in one of his sermons. It is also the Chaplin who is against Alex or anyone for that matter being a subject of Dr Brodsky's "Ludovico's Technique". The Chaplin expresses his views on the ethics of the treatment to Alex when he first asks about it. .
"The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good.
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A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... "A Clockwork Orange" deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ...
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