What exactly is a clockwork orange?

Question: What exactly is a clockwork orange!?

In the book the professor, whose wife was raped by Alex and his droogies, wrote a book or paper titled "A clockwork orange" and he also made some mention of what the concept of a clockwork orange is!. Alex also exclaimed during the book "Is this not a clockwork orange!?" after undergoing the experiments!. But what exactly is a "clockwork orange"!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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This is the issue between science and nature!. People are either clockwork - attached to routine - playing inside the box!. Or they are Orange - juicy - living life to its fullest!. A clockwork orange is an oxymoron!. You can either be clockwork or you can be orange!. And given the choice, I will be orange every time!. A clockwork orange is taking Alex- who is orange - and trying to make him clockwork - rigid and routine!. They took away Alex's free will!. Pax-CWww@QuestionHome@Com

Explanation of the novel's title
Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange"!.1 Due to his time serving in the British Colonial Office in Malaysia, Burgess thought that the phrase could be used punningly to refer to a mechanically responsive (clockwork) human (orang, Malay for "man")!.
Burgess wrote in introduction to the 1986 edition, titled A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty state!."
In his essay "Clockwork Oranges"2, Burgess asserts that "this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian, or mechanical, laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness"!. This title alludes to the protagonist's positively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will!.Www@QuestionHome@Com