ant thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate (Burgess 7)." This hypothetical type of clockwork orange nowhere appears in the novel because the main character Alex is neither totally good nor totally evil but a mixture of both. This remains true even after Alex is mentally conditioned by the government. It is true that the government tries to make Alex totally good through conditioning; however, since it is a coerced goodness, against Alex's will, total goodness is not achieved (Rabinovitz 49).
             Fifteen year old Alex is the leader of a hoodlum gang. According to critic A. A. Devitis, regardless of how precocious Alex is in the way of evil, he can still appreciate the nature of the choice he makes for evil over good (104). Alex and his friends, or "droogs," as he calls them, all participate in activities such a beatings, robbery and rape. At first, it would appear that these actions are included just to call attention on themselves. Upon closer examination, it becomes clear that that they are used to emphasize characterization and maintain the illusion of a dehumanized world at the same time (Devitis 106). Devitis further goes on to add that while Alex's world may not be made up of the traditional Roman Catholic good and evil, the two both exist in Alex's cosmos (106). This becomes clear when Alex makes statements such as, "If lewdies are good that's because they like it... But what I do I do because I like to do (Burgess 43). His freedom to choose evil over good becomes the chief consideration of the novel (Devitis 106).
             It is made clear right away that Alex does not have the same set of morals that most people do. For instance, Alex has no interest in women except as objects of violence and rape. The term used to by Alex to describe the act of sex is, "the old in-out-in-out." There is never any mention about a part of the female body other than breast size (Ra...