"What's going to happen then, huh?" is the signature question of Anthony Burgess' novel, A Clockwork Novel, which not only resonates with the moral identity of the antiheroic protagonist, Alex, but also points to the essential choice between free will that perpetrates evil and deterministic goodness that is forced and unreal. The prison chaplain and the writer F. Alexander give voice to the most controversial idea in the novel: man becomes "a clockwork orange" when he is robbed of free will and tuned to a deterministic mechanism. Burgess emphasizes the need for free will to maintain humanity in both senses. community and individual level. The novel depicts a futuristic dystopian society through its antihero Alex and traces the protagonist's journey from perpetrator of violence to an ultimately partially reformed and mature man. The article supports both the concept of free will and deterministic goodness from the analysis of Alex's character and society as reflected in the government's conduct against prisoners and provides an unbiased conclusion in favor of one of the concepts. From the beginning, the novel depicts a struggle between violent free will and a safe but regulated environment. Alex and his friends, the droogs, rape free will as they disassociate themselves from the clutches of the government. They show the cold aspect of free will through their actions such as stealing, attacking innocent people, and raping women as their free will dictates. Burgess seems to argue that in a society that depends heavily on safe and predictable behavior, Alex and the group's action is a reaction or way of expressing themselves against expected behavior. Their display of violence is an assertion, a force against individuals... middle of paper... a process which means that the choice between good and evil cannot be imposed on any individual. The argument presented here has its allegiance to free will rather than forced conformation to the good. Leading a “clockwork orange” life is as derogatory as committing heinous acts under the guise of free will. Ethical goodness is necessary to live life in a civilized society just as control over evil is necessary to keep the same society free from crime, but in both contexts neither can be achieved by force. As mentioned at the beginning, every individual has an inherent nature, good or bad. An evil person cannot be reformed by force. Only when the individual realizes his erroneous ways and the desire to reform himself can change occur. If free will can lead to evil, the same free will can promote good, without any need for forced interference.