A CLOCKWORK ORANGE POST 7

"'You are to be made into a good boy, 6655321. Never again will you have the desire to commit acts of violence or to offend in any way whatsoever against the State's Peace. I hope you take all that in. I hope you are absolutely clear in your own mind about that.' I said:
'Oh, it will be nice to be good, sir.' But I had a real horrorshow smeck at that inside, bothers. He said:
'It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed on him? Deep hard questions, little 6655321. But all i was to say to you now is this: if at any time in the future you look back to these times and remember me, the lowest and and humblest of all God's servitors, do no, I pray, think evil of me in your hear, thinking me in any way involved in what is now about to happen to you. And now, talking of praying, I realize sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. "

This quote utilizes dramatic irony and foreshadowing to emphasize a point the character, the prison chaplain, is trying to verbalize to a stubborn and self-satisfied Alex. A man of God, he questions his creators will over and over again in regards to the procedure Alex will go under that will rid him of his cruel ways, but also of his free will. When Alex snarks at this in his own head, it shows that he is not ready to endure nor understand the seriousness of what he is about to be deprived of. The Chaplain, on the other hand, repeartedly warns him and begs for Alex, a criminal, to forgive him. This should serve as a warning for Alex, but instead gives him a feeling of surperiority for considering it nonsense-this shows he has not changed, nor has he been "put in his place" as prison had originally been intended for. When the true purpose of the treatment is revealed, it it clear Alex jumped the gun and underestimated societies ability to supress him.