How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly--that business about the marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain." (3.4.17)
F. Alexander verbalizes a key point of A Clockwork Orange. Robbed of his free will and choice to do good or evil things, and compelled to perform only socially acceptable acts, Alex is no longer a human being.
Quote #11
"A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man." (3.4.19)
This may be the most lucid statement of what a clockwork orange represents. The moral of the story? If you have no free will and can't choose, you're not human. Likewise, if you can't choose, you can't be good or evil, because it no longer makes sense to talk about actions as good or evil.