A Clockwork Orange is a controversial work in which the setting is in a futuristic society in which, political powers have subsided and lawlessness, violence, and youth gangs terrorize the people. Free will is the cost that Alex De Large has to pay in a society that is so dominated by violence. Anthony Burgess, in his novel A Clockwork Orange, contends that unless man freely chooses to reject the attraction of violence, rehabilitation and conditioning only works if man's free will is destroyed.
             At one point or another a person has experienced the appeal of violence. Violence has its ways to make people want more, similar to an adrenalin rush. Alex, who is the narrator, tells the story through the first person point of view. Alex and his Droogs (followers) experience violence on a nightly basis. On one particular night Alex and his Droogs were walking along when they saw a drunken old man who asked them for a quarter. "One thing I could never stand is to see a filthy old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going Blerp Blerp in between, as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts." At this point they started to beat the old man fiercely with no regret for their actions. "It's a stinking world cause there's no law and order any more. It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you've done." "Filled with anti-authoritarian and anti-behaviorist satire," Alex and the Droogs continue to an aban!
             don theater where they surprise Billy Boy and his four Droogs who were giving a young woman "the old-in-out." The conflict between the two
             gangs drew out of control to the point that the cops were alerted to the scene of the crime. Alex enjoyed these kinds of thoughts and feelings especially while he raped a young woman in front of her husband. The ironic thing wasn't his love for sex, fighting, and drinking,...