Monday, June 1, 2009

No, really, what's it going to be then?

This time Alex delivers this quote, it doesn’t really make sense. Because of the Ludovico Technique Alex is not allowed to make choices anymore. Since he loses this power to make meaningful choices, he also looses his identity as a human. Thus, the tables have turned. Once upon a time, Alex would use his droogs as schemes for power, now Alex himself had been utilized as a scheme for power. The Ludovico Technique is a system of psychological confusion. It associates bad behavior with sickness and nausea. After going through the experiment, Alex is unable to do the things he loves and making meaningful decisions. Therefore, Alex is in no place to ask this question. In fact, I am confused as to how he is able to ask this question. He has been stripped of all ability to choose freely but he is still able to ask this question. Maybe it is still like the saying. Maybe the city is still inside Alex. But, this time the city is under tighter wraps. This Technique surely changed Alex, and maybe for the better. By the very end of the story, Alex says farewell to the life he’d lived as an adolescent. Alex now continues, this an ending to soothe the faint hearted, and leaves the life he’d been living. He dreams of a life of commitment and love and settlement. He dreams of a child, a wife, and a life. This goes to show the world that, in the words of John Lock, people are generally good. No matter how bad someone is, there is a hint of goodness, and once that goodness takes over life is beautiful.

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