will focus on the attitudes of Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick. In the following part of this paper I will talk about the novel‘s main protagonist Alex and I will finish off by pointing out the realistic elements of this Dystopia.
             II/a) Definition of a Clockwork Orange
             For someone who coincidently stumbles over Anthony Burgess‘ book the first lifted eyebrow may be caused be the title of this dystopian novel. A Clockwork Orange. What could that be? An orange coloured clockwork? A mechanical fruit? The second guess probably is the right one. At least in a kind of metaphorical way, the fruit seen as something organic in general- and as someone human in the sense of the book. Burgess himself defined the meaning of the title:
             If he [a human being] can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange- meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy [...] .
             This statement practically explains what happens to the novel‘s protagonist Alex. He uses his "free will" to decide on "evil" and he is "totally aware of his own evil and accepts it with complete openness" . But still he would be able to change his mind, to grow up and get tired of his behaviour. He is a free human being able to act according to his own decisions. But when put into prison he gets conditioned by the "Almighty State" which "deprives him of his free will" . Because of that Alex becomes a clockwork orange, "something that appears to be fully human but is basically mechanical in all of his responses" . After being "cured" of his tendency towards evil Alex is no longer able to act the way he wants. His free will is being suppressed and he has to act according to the rules of the state, which makes him little more than a robot.
             With becoming a clockwork orange Alex lost the major qua...