A Clockwork Orange is largely a parable about free will. Ludovico's Technique is a scientific method for taking moral choice away from troublesome criminals. After being conditioned, the person subjected to this treatment feels intense pain and nausea whenever he has a violent thought. Nonetheless, the criminal is forced to be good. The criminal's own brain becomes a police state and as Alex puts it when he had a violent thought, "skorry as a shot …
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