A Clockwork Orange and the Inviolability of Free Will - Book Report/Review Example

From the crime Alex committed, he is sentenced to fourteen years in prison, his first years in prison are a challenge for him, the guards are oppressive and merciless; also other prisoners want to rape him. However as time passes Alex's life in prison becomes easier, he befriends the prison chaplain who later learns of Alex's interest in the Bible. The chaplain lets Alex read in the prison chapel and allows him to listen to classical music. One day after killing a cellmate, the prison management select Alex as a candidate for an experimental treatment called the Ludovico's that involves brainwashing through incorporating associative learning.

After several treatments Alex is no longer violent, this was a massive success for the law and order department as they could now release non-vicious prisoner once undertaken through the Ludovico's treatment (Books of The Times). After two years, Alex is released a harmless human being incapable of vicious acts, however from this transition life is difficult for him as those he wronged start revenging on him. The old gang who are police officers revenge on Alex by beating him up, Alex crawls to the cottage where he had beaten up a man and raped his wife.

He narrates the story to the man who develops a plan for killing him; however, Alex learns of the plan and hurls himself out of an attic window. Even from the fact that the fall does not kill him, Alex finds himself in the hospital where the doctors extract the Ludovico's restoring Alex's violent state (Burgess).