The Importance of the Title ​A Clockwork Orange

As Burgess quotes, the title A Clockwork Orange is derived from "a phrase which I heard many years ago and so fell in love with. I wanted to use it as the title of the book. But the phrase itself I did not make up. The phrase 'as queer as a clockwork orange' is a good old East London slang and it didn't seem necessary to explain it. Now, obviously, I have to give it an extra meaning. I've implied an extra dimension. I've implied a junction of the organic, the lively, the sweet - in other words, life, the orange - and the mechanical, the cold, the disciplined. I've brought them together into a kind of oxymoron" (​The International Anthony Burgess Foundation). As I discuss in the next section, similar to the fictional dialect this book is written in, the title serves as a thought-provoking and nonsensical phrase that leaves readers simultaneously grasping for meaning yet also somehow perfectly understanding what is implied. 

It'll ultimately be your decision whether or not to maintain the title of the source. Do you want your TV adaption to retain this same oxymoronic feeling between life and machine? To have the same confusing, yet profound effect? Or do you want to stray away and represent that aspect of the novel in other facets of your series...