A Clockwork Orange

While my big question focuses on if their is free will or if people are dictated by fate, A Clockwork Orange answers the question on if fate is good. “Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?" This quote helps to summarize the main idea. If their is a fate our actions are predetermined, we no longer choose to be good but instead merely act according to our fate, taking away the choice and thus the goodness behind the action. This quote is said by a  prison worker to Alex before he gets the new treatment. He is trying to explain to Alex that even if the treatment works and he is good its not truly good.

"Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” is another great quote about fate concisely showing without choice we no longer are human but rather simulations or puppets acting out an already determined play. Due to this theme taken by the book about the negatives of faith, A Clockwork Orange is saying peoples actions and repercussions are all their own. Even though the third part of A Clockwork Orange mirrors the first and now the people he victimized are  making him the victim in a seeming fated experience it was only through a string of choices that he made.