What is a truly good person? Who are they, and how can someone become a good person? A Clockwork Orange is a book that questions these questions for us The main character Alex is someone with bad habits who is far from goodness.
As a result, Alex, who was imprisoned, was used in an experiment by the government.This experiment is a technique applied to make people better. This technique, which is applied to Alex, raises this question in the reader's mind: Is a person who cannot choose goodness of their own free will truly good?
Many people choose to be good because of the fear of being excluded or the desire for social approval. It is debatable how moral this situation is. The book says that humans are like 'clockwork oranges.' A human is natural like a real orange, but a 'clockwork orange' is a human who acts like a machine because of outside pressure. According to this, if a person tries to be good because of social pressure or fear, they are not an organic human anymore; they have become a puppet of society. So, when Alex is 'cured' with this technique, he does not become a good person anymore; he just turns into a machine that is afraid of doing evil.
At the end of the book, Alex gets free from this technique and, instead of being evil like before, he decides to be a good person by his own free will. This situation can be interpreted in many ways, such as maturity, a fatigue of evil, or the realization that being evil no longer contributes anything to him. Consequently in my opinion, true goodness is not an action forced by outside pressure; it should come from the heart by one's own free will.