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over the weak, his free will and ability of choice. As stated in the story, “goodness is chosen from within”(67). When choice is forced, man no longer has any power within himself. He is told from the prison warden, “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man”(67). After being told, Alex is still able to sign over his rights as an individual. In each stage, his point of view proves how he loses his natural power as he loses his choice. When Alex regains his ability to decide between good and evil, he narrates, “And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing . . . I was cured all right”(139). Through this thought, he proves power through the ability of choice. He once again decides upon evil to display his power through violence. This thought is crucial to the reader’s understanding of how close the ability of choice is related to individual power. The demonstration of his free will and his loss of power through the absence of choice is effectively accomplished through the use of first person narration.

Throughout this story, choice has proven many aspects of power and it’s abuse. Through strong symbols in imagery, Alex’s characterization, and his point of view, the absence of choice is proven as the most debilitating and most overlooked depravation of man’s individual power. In everyone’s life, the struggle for power exists in all situations. The decision between good and evil is the power that anyone must have as an individual. The choice of which path to take is dependant on the person and the situation, but the realization that both exist is a power unto itself.