A Clockwork Orange Transformation Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from A Clockwork Orange.

Quote #4

CHAPLAIN: The question is whether or not this technique really makes a man good. Goodness comes from within. Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

The chaplain doesn't think that Alex still has to choose. He will choose to not do violent acts to avoid being sick. How is choice being taken away from him?

Quote #5

ALEX: I don't understand about the whys and wherefores, Father. I only know I want to be good.

Here it seems like Alex is going too far into suck-up territory. He only wants to get out of jail. He has no desire to be good, because he has not changed from who he was before. The Chief agrees: "You'll have to watch this one. A right brutal bastard he has been, and will be again. In spite all his sucking up to the prison Chaplain and reading the Bible."

Quote #6

ALEX: I just don't understand about feeling sick the way I did. I never used to feel sick before. I used to feel like the very opposite. I mean, doing it or watching it, I used to feel real horrorshow.

This line confirms who Alex was before the procedure, and who he is after. He has changed in way, even if it is mostly superficial. He still doesn't think violence is wrong, but it makes him sick. For him, it's like getting food poisoning after eating your favorite food. You still want it, but you're scared to try it again.