Anthony Burgess: The importance of moral freedom for all in A Clockwork Orange Moral freedom is one of the most if not the most important of any freedoms available for humans. Moral freedom is the ability to either choose to perform good and bad deeds or both. Totalitarian governments take away one’s individual choice and thus, suppresses and suffocates thee soul. The setting in A Clockwork Orange, is a general parallax to a totalitarian …showed first 75 words of 1498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1498 total…through the evils of Ludovico’s technique. If one is forced to be good, and they do what is right, it is not out of any ethical or moral conviction. When one is forced what to do, he us merely a tool, or a pawn of the state. A clockwork orange, an automaton, unlike someone with the freedom of choice who is an individual. Work Cited Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. New York: Ballantine Books, 1963.