or not is up to his discretion. "He has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of

since it is a forced goodness, conflicting his own will, a complete goodness is not attained. This shows that the reform of Alex is now over and has no significance over him. Now Alex can go about committing crimes as he had done before when he was younger. This in turn shows the significance of the title in the characteristics of the clock. As before Alex was able to make his own decisions without a problem, then he was reformed and now he is back to where he started and can now do as he wishes once again. "More and more these days I had been just giving the orders and standing back to viddy them being carried out. So Bully cracked into him er er er, and the other two tripped him and kicked him." (Page 182) Alex has now gone back to the same routine that he had when he was younger. The examples stated above have shown how the life of Alex represents the cycle of a clock in the way that it starts at one point and then ends up at that point once again. Another way that a clock !

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self-abasement. He ceases also to be a creature capable of mor

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