Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: a symmetrical thought

          One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has a significant connection to the novel Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Alexander (main character), alike Chief Bromden is unaware of his own insanity. Both are treated within a facility of terrible means. However among all of the crazy patients, they act as outsiders who observe. In addition, these two demented minds share another trait: they view the world as a machine. Everything functions with the precision of a clock. “The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. “ (Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess. Part One, Chapter Two) Alexander also believes that technology is a medieval technique used to manipulate and alter people. Technology is defined as “the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes....” In this case, technology is a worldwide method to perfect humanity. 

         “For a tick of time, before it all turned into white dust, I saw it was a miniature electronic element like the ones I helped the Radar Corps...” 31. Through this Chiefs eyes, everything is a machine. For the world around his functions with punctuality and exactitude. In the Clockwork Orange, this element is present as well. Well, everything must be “adjusted to surroundings.” This saying exploits all of the human’s superficiality onto the world. It states that the world is destined to be a humanized utopia: one that is plastic. One that is like a doll. 

          Morality is inexistent when trying to impose “morality” upon people. Dr. Brodsky has the power the sculpt Alexander’s mind, through torture if it guarantee’s successful results. Using music, videos, and images helped distort, the patient’s mind. In the other hand, Nurse Ratched and the “black men in white suites,” use technology to create. 

         “Sometimes a guy goes over for an installation, leaves the ward mean and mad and snapping at the whole world and comes back a few weeks later with black-and-blue eyes like he’d been in a fist fight, and he’s the sweetest, nicest, best-behaved thing you ever saw. 16” Contrasting to Clockwork Orange’s ending, people are manufactured into another product with the use of technology. Patients become different life-forms, but because they are different people, they are unaware of this change. Alexander, in Clockwork Orange,  was aware of what he’d become after his treatment. After having committed such sins, and gaining a conscious, this boy had no alternative but to commit suicide. Although the medical procedures taken in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, seem grotesque and inhumane, the person is cured and is able to start fresh. For the patient has no recollection of their previous state. 

          Which method is less sinful? One that tortures, but leads to a conscious? Or, one that clears and corrects the mind? Machines have the power to transform the world, but they will never be able to change its past. Humans live life to become purer souls, to make good deeds and help others. Every act, every thought, and every word that comes out of one’s lips, constructs a definition of oneself. A person who becomes another so abruptly will still remain the same. For their wasn’t an actual transaction. To be able to develop or evolve is completely under one’s determination. No machine is justifiable. Man never had and never will have the power or intelligence to overcome G-d’s creation. The thought of manipulating nature implicates going against scientific means. Well, this simply signifies that no machine is capable of doing so.