It’s a part of all human beings and is as crucial and as hard to understand as good behaviour is. Alex believes that there is no answer, nor is there a way to root out the behaviour. He and his colleagues have worked on the problem for years but have yet to figure out the source of evil behaviour in human beings. In this quote, which is in Part One, Chapter 4, Alex addresses Deltoid. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. They don’t go into the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop?. His free will is going to be taken from him.
This means that despite acting like a good person, Alex won’t be one. The chaplain asserts the opinion that good acts, if not performed with one’s free will, are meaningless. It’s going to change him irreparably, or so they all believe. He refers to the Reclamation Treatment that Alex is about to undergo. He’s sharing his opinion of free will, one of the central themes of the novel. The chaplain speaks it at the prison where Alex is held for a couple of years. This quote appears in Part Two, Chapter 3 of ‘ A Clockwork Orange’.
What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Any good deeds he commits are therefore meaningless. This essential part of what makes him human is removed. Once gone, Alex is unable to choose between wicked deeds and good deeds. But, they come back into play towards the end of the novel when Alex experiences what Alexander is attempting to stand up against. Alexander’s writing and dismisses what he’s said in these lines. These lines represent the most important theme at the heart of the broader novel.Īt first, Alex is critical of F. He reads these lines before beating the author to death and raping his wife. Alexander’s manuscript, which was given the same name as the title. These lines are in Part One, Chapter 2 of ‘ A Clockwork Orange‘. The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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