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the music (115). It is during this same treatment that the reader really begins to feel sympathy toward him. Striped of his ability to choose right from wrong, and now the same clockwork orange that F. Alexander earlier told him about, Alex becomes one of the governments machines. Forced to do exactly what they want him to, become their true Christian (129), Alex poses the question to his doctors, How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog am I to be just like a clockwork orange? (126-127) Alex is all alone in the world, no longer capable of performing cruel deeds, he is denied by all whom he once knew. The same character one used to wish the harshest punishment upon received it, and when he got it, it becomes strikingly evident that it was much more then even the worst person would ever deserve.

Burgess does a magical job at making the reader quickly forget the horrible deeds Alex once committed. Instead by making powerful moral statements, Burgess goes so far that the reader not only turns the other cheek toward Alex s crimes, but also feels genuinely sorry for him. Alex may not be completely cured, but that is not the issue at hand. Through means of pity and by playing with the readers emotions throughout the book, during A Clockwork Orange, Burgess is constantly playing with the reader s allegiances.