Free Will In Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange

In a world where free will is given to everyone and taken advantage of, no one can imagine a life without it. In Anthony Burgess's’ novel A Clockwork Orange, we get an insight on a young thug named Alex who loves the thrill from chaos and violence who overtime loses the born right of free will. Burgess is criticising the methods to rid individuals of free will, not that evil exists in certain individuals. “Freedom of the will is as self- evident and clear as anything we can know,” (Rene Descartes) free will is one of the things us as humans are born with, there is no need for examples, or demonstrations, it is something that every human is born with. Take away this free will and we cease to be humans, but animals with no decision making.
Something humans cannot control and must happen for survival. Moral free will is making a choice based on our conscience, having our heart or head choose for us. Metaphysical freedom allows us to make a decision based off normally formed motives such as dreams, goals, and wishes. “Overall, then, free will is a matter of an agent's capacity to resolve choices by thought in line with her own motives. And two component factors are pivotally at issue here.” (Rene Descartes) Free will itself is a very controversial topic not only in A Clockwork Orange but in life alone; when looked at through a philosophical view it raises many questions. Free will is a concept taken for granted, something everyone expects to be born with. From a philosophical view, depending on the belief of God, or a higher power, free will may not exist. By some higher power, for example God, who will know everything we as humans do at any moment of the day, free will ceases to exist for the purpose that we do not really have a choice
In A Clockwork Orange, Alex performs something known as capricious freedom, an action done spontaneously, with no thought to it just impulse. Whether he was assaulting old “chelloveck” or doing the old “in out in out” to a “devotchka” mostly everything he does was spontaneous. He has no motive to do any of these heinous crimes, he is pure evil, an agent of chaos who seeks harm on others and gains joy from it. People tend to think of themselves as agents of free will, making decisions based on what they want “freely.” Well, this isn't always the case, if something had happened and you only have one choice, that is not considered a fee will decision, it was forced based upon the events that led up to that moment; now the questions about free will arises, is it real? In some cases it may not be real always choosing to do something based on your situation, when spontaneously done you are breaking the chains that shackle our actions. In 1971, psychologist B.F Skinner made an attempt to discover what agents control the actions of our thoughts? Finding this hard to prove, he asked himself two questions. “ 1-Given the option of seeing yourself as an autonomously(meaning not controlled by other) free and responsible agent or not,