The Importance Of Morality In A Clockwork Orange

Morality; it is a choice that we as humans contextualize through our thoughts and actions that set us apart from the ones who do “right” and the ones who do “wrong”. While bioethics touches on a multitude of subcategories, they collectively return from what one perceives is morally correct. But, what is seen as “right” in one person’s view can be entirely different in another person’s. A Clockwork Orange is about a reproachable British teenager with whose actions most living in today’s society would agree were not morally correct. An array of bioethical issues are demonstrated by a team whose goal is to “bring him back” to morality and conform him to what society views as acceptable. We will particularly look those pertaining to morality, autonomy,

Their mischievousness took a turn for the worse, when a dance between Alex and the woman he pursues as his next victim results in an unforeseen murder. Alex is caught in the act and shortly thereafter is sentenced to 14 years in prison. Unable to avoid his violent and demeaning tendencies, Alex is used as a spectacle for the government and chooses to participate as a subject in a breakthrough psychological treatment referred to in the movie as Ludovico’s Technique, a form of operant conditioning. Though it had appeared that Alex had been rinsed clean of his bad habits, he also ended up as defenseless in several different scenarios once released from his treatment. Those who had testified his antidote to have worked, still believed his treatment had left him as a man incapable of making a moral choice. This begs the question of whether the technique used on Alex regarded him as an autonomous individual, or one that only contorted his mind by associating fear of pain and angst when faced with a given

His condition was handled in ways many would likely view as inhumane and counterproductive. His autonomy as a human being was overturned, and what the governor of the interior felt would have beneficial for the society resulted in a failure at the expense of one person. The final outcome was that Alex was not “cured” of his immoral actions, but was burdened with actions that masked his current condition, to include depression paired with suicidal tendencies, followed by a relapse. Although he had awful and inhumane tendencies, he should not have been used as a human guinea pig, or as a means to win a political race. Psychology is a topic that evolves as drastically as anything else in the medical world, but the mind is a powerful thing that should be approached with the utmost care, especially in the experimental