It is often said that life is full of choices and the choices you make is what

makes you yourself. Society, however, has since the dawn of time tried to control

the thoughts of individuals by forcing ideas upon them that destroys the person on

a mental and emotional level while crushing their physical well-being. With the

thoughts of a perfect world, people often forget that when you force a society to

conform to standards you also kill the society's existence in the process, making it

more machine that human. It takes a strong and educated person to realize these

mistakes made by society and try to show others why it's wrong to try force

conformity. Anthony Burgess' belief that "a man who cannot choose ceases to be

a man" is exemplified in most of his works, but most notably in A Clockwork

Orange in which a so-called good society tries to change the psyche of a troubled

Born John Anthony Burgess Wilson, Anthony Burgess is a man of great

stature and respect. "A big man of sturby, ramshackle appearance, with a blunt

disarming manner and awesome energy (Clemons 56)." He loved life and

expressed it in his works of literature. Born in Manchester, England du

for the future, which labeled him an anarchist by the church of England. He didn't

University, and Columbia University. In 1971, Anthony Burgess gave up

society in which there is no law or control over people. He realized that there

danger of loss of individuality (Tilton 55)." However, Burgess was criticized

the point of view of Burgess, and the way he feels. Alex has chosen a very evil

novel and urged people to read the book to better understand the concepts he

shows Alex as a sincere person but he likes it, he begins to question god

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