In the novel A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, author of the book, has tried to show the importance of individual freedom over doing the right thing. He has shown extreme acts of violence in the book to show his strong belief. Alex, the main charater, and his droogs; Georgie, Dim, and Pete are the main characters in a novel that is set in the foreseeable future. In this future, there are few police officers and …showed first 75 words of 608 total…

…showed last 75 words of 608 total…experimenting on people in a way that it takes a part of their freedom away like that. That type of brainwashing might seem successful in the short-term, but it seems something like that can have long-term effects that might just make the problems worse then they already are. Anyway, I would recommend this book to anyway that doesn’t mind gruesome scenes of violence in a book to get a point across to the reader.