Alex breaks in and knocks the woman unconscious but, when he hears sirens and opens the door to flee, Dim strikes him in payback for the earlier fight. Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then pacifies the gang by agreeing to Georgie's plan to rob the home of a wealthy elderly woman. Georgie challenges Alex for leadership of the gang, demanding that they focus on higher-value targets in their robberies. That night after a nap, Alex finds his droogs in a mutinous mood, waiting downstairs in the torn-up and graffitied lobby. He invites them back to the flat, where he drugs and rapes them. Deltoid, his "post-corrective adviser", Alex visits a record store, where he meets two pre-teen girls. At home in his parents' flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume, which he describes as giving him orgasmic bliss before falling asleep.Īlex feigns illness to his parents to stay out of school the next day. Back at the Korova, Alex strikes Dim for his crude response to a woman's singing of an operatic passage, and strains within the gang become apparent. 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. 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.
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
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