“Valuing Impacts and Implications of Freewill in People's lives.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony

Burgess”.

Introduction

Freewill is not just about freedom but also requires a person to take responsibility for his action.
A Clockwork Orange tells the tale of a man named Alex who uses his personal power and desire
to do all kinds of violence during his youth. However, his violence ends after being arrested and
placed in a Reclamation Treatment program where his violent acts and behaviors are destroyed
through psychological and medical procedure. After being released, Alex goes back to normal
life but his old friends turned into enemies, attack him for all his violent actions against his
victims. He realizes that he must return to his old life as a violent man though he also learns
that he is getting old and that he wants his own family like his friend Peter who gets a wife and
a decent life after years of being thug.

Need for this Study

Alex wants to believe that everyone is bound for freedom. The freedom to do things according
to their will without thinking about the repercussion or limitation. Freedom is not about
restrictions but greatness and satisfaction. However, every person must take responsibility for
his freedom especially if his freewill tends to destroy others. This happens to Alex when he is
arrested, which serves as his punishment for going beyond the limits of his freedom. When Alex
undergoes the Reclamation Treatment program, the government takes his freewill, the decision
to remain bad. At the end of the sorry, Alex still exercises his freewill, but a choice to become a
man living in a normal and peaceful life.

Background

A Clockwork Orange is a typical story of youth that tends to believe that freewill leads to
happiness. Freewill is a perceived to be the greatest theme in the novel because of the
protagonist determination to free himself from confinement. Alex is a significant example of a
teenager trying to empower others through violence. For him, it is a freedom from the society's
confined laws, rules and policies. He believes that freewill is a right that he needs to enjoy,
regardless of it's impact or effects on others. As long as he is happy and satisfied, he does
everything that he wants. However, at a young age, Alex fails to realize the value of social
responsibility. Freedom is connected to social responsibility. Despite the youth’s freedom, they
must be responsible enough to act and behave according to the rules and laws of the society.
At the end of the book, Burgess shows that violence and negative behavior are typical acts of
adolescence, a period that passes as they reach their adult realization of becoming a man with
purpose and peace.

Objectives

The research paper seeks to achieve it's general objectives of valuing impacts and implications
of freewill by focusing on the following objectives:

1. To encourage and analyze the importance of valuing impacts and implication if freewill.
2. To determine the worth of freedom of individual.
3. To realize the purpose of life in terms of facing the act of violence and negative
behavior.

Research Questions

4. Does freewill will be the advantage of doing violence and negative behavior?
5. Does people takes easy in indicating bad or good activities in terms of freedom?
 6. Does freewill has positive and negative effects?

Methodology

The paper is conducted through having a collection and gathering of data by accessing media
interview. Since certain questions were prepared, so as for the researcher to guide the
interview towards the satisfaction of research objectives, but additional questions were made
encountered during the interviews.

Research Timeline

The project is expected to be completed in 1 week and 2 days with the following indicated as
the activities durations for every section of the research project:

Research Section Duration

1. Title and Introduction 1 day

2. Need for this Study 1 day
3. Background 2 days
4. Objective and Research Questions 2 days
5. Research Methodology 1 day
6. References 1 day
7. Reviewing work for final submission 1 day

References

Ramakrishnan, S. (2013, November 15). Law and Literature: A Review Of 'A Clockwork Orange'.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2988909

Braund, S. (1970 December 31). EMPIRE ESSAY: A Clockwork Orange Review.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/empire-essay-clockwork-orange-review/

Snively, B (2017, June 16). CURED ALL RIGHTS: The Differing Messages of the Literary and
Cinematic Version of A Clockwork Orange. https://medium.com/@bensnively/the-differing-
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