A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a great example of a satire due to it’s dark humor and the questioning of free will the protagonist explores. To begin with, in my previous blog post I spoke about a quotation which I feel means a lot in this book. That quotation is “But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self (40).” To explain further this quotation determines everything Alex is truly living for. The way he acts is an exaggerated version of someone who does not want to be a product of society but believe what they choose to believe. However, what the protagonist has yet realized is that you have freedom until it intervenes with the freedom of other individuals. With this in mind I think Anthony Burgess made such character to show what the world would become if people thought they could live through their own freedom. Doing so would lead into a lot of chaos in the world and people would be living in terror most of the time. Im curious to continue reading and find out whether or not he has a realization. A theme statement that can be used to explain the work as a whole is when an individual is too focused on their own freedom they may lose sight of anyone else’s. I think this is a good theme statement that applies to the book because it is what Alex is doing. He is losing sight of the freedom of everyone else’s because he only thinks his is most important. For example, in the book Alex raped two ten year old girls. He was so focused on believing that if everyone has freedom then they should do what they want that he did not take account the little girl’s freedom. Instead he took it away from them by raping them. Not only does that support the theme but gives an insihg on how horrifying the world may be without laws to keep our freedom the way it is. Overall A Clockwork Orange there is a lot to learn from and it is a great story.