The article is devoted to the legal analysis of Anthony Burgesss dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. The research focuses on how the totalitarian state in the work uses legal principles (justice, humanism) to justify total control over the individual. The purpose of the work is to show how formal observance of the law serves to mask its fundamental violation. Using the example of the Ludovico technique, it is proved that any system that puts social order above free will inevitably destroys the human personality, turning it into a clockwork orange mechanism. The results of the study demonstrate why such practices, even when legally documented, are inhumane and destructive to society. The article will be of interest to specialists in the field of law, political science, literary critics and anyone who is interested in the problems of interaction between the individual and the state.
Mikhail Tikhonov (Wed,) studied this question.