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In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called " A Clockwork Orange", and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.
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Joyriding through the countryside in a stolen car, they break into an isolated cottage and terrorise the young couple living there, beating the husband and gang-raping his wife. They assault a scholar walking home from the public library rob a store, leaving the owner and his wife bloodied and unconscious beat up a beggar then scuffle with a rival gang. The story begins with the droogs sitting in their favourite hangout, the Korova Milk Bar, and drinking "milk-plus" – a beverage consisting of milk laced with the customer's drug of choice – to prepare for a night of ultra-violence. Characterised as a sociopath and hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent, quick-witted, and enjoys classical music he is particularly fond of Beethoven, whom he calls "Lovely Ludwig Van". His friends ("droogs" in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang, " Nadsat") and fellow gang members are Dim, a slow-witted bruiser, who is the gang's muscle Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for "ultra-violence" (random, violent mayhem). Plot summary Part 1: Alex's world Īlex is a 15-year-old gang leader living in a near-future dystopian city.
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According to Burgess, it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called " Nadsat", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. Print ( hardback & paperback) & audio book ( cassette, CD)Ī Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Science fiction, dystopian fiction, satire, black comedy