A Clockwork Orange

One of my favorite parts in this book is the language, I had to reread some of the beginning to understand it, but I got the just of it. The book is filled with so much violence, yet it’s almost sugar coated with this playful slang. Which, for some reason,
makes it even worse, yet easier to take it all in.
As I already mentioned, there’s a lot of violence in this book, but it’s never explained why, there’s no reason for the violence. Is it just a way to pass time? It’s probably more the thrill that the protagonist gets from bloody violence that is the motivation to for all of it. I’m not sure if all his droogies feel the same way about it though, it feels more like they like the power side of it, that becomes clear after Dim and George make it clear that they are dissatisfied with Alex being the leader of the group, also, Dim and George become policemen whom have more authority and power. So they probably liked that aspect from it. Then there’s Pete, who would be most like Alex, even though he’s not as violent, there still is no real reason for the violence he commits, and in the end of the book, he and Alex leave their violent past behind and become active members of society.
Then there’s the chaplain. who poses the question of what good really is. If a man chooses to be bad better then a man who is forced to be good. Which is exactly what happens to the protagonist, at first he is forced to be good because of the Ludovico program, he can’t even enjoy his favorite type of music anymore and that drives him to try and commit suicide, but then when he turns normal again and meets his old friend Pete, he decides he wants to follow his role and change his life around.
There isn’t a book like A clockwork anywhere, it took me a while to get the used to the slang, but it just added to the whole experience. It raised more questions then I could talk about in this review, like where to draw the line for violence, what to do with someone who is just a bad person and if forcing him to be good would be a good idea or not.