clockwork orange
A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. ... "If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State" Before Alexs character is rehabilitated he is one of the most amoral people in the book. ... If not, the creation would be that of a robot like person incapable of feeling or self awareness, this is what Burgess calls a Clockwork Orange.