Violence In A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a novel about a dystopian future riddled with teen violence. The story follows a boy named Alex, the leader of a teen gang. He tells his life of savage crime and the government's attempt to ameliorate him. Burgess uses Alex to explore the innate horror of government. The attempt to conform, and make natural things, like an orange, a machine working like clockwork. In the beginning, Alex and his gang leave the milk bar and see a drunk man-, poorly singing. The boys start to ruthlessly beat the man but he continues to sing. The man tells them to keep beating him because he does not want to live in a world like this. He says, “It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to old like you do, and

Alex goes around hurting, raping, and murdering people with little consequence at the start of the novel. The older people are living in constant fear of the younger generations because the government is unable to control the revolting teens. The terrorization is result of the overbearing government that is in place. When they do get Alex, they use the Ludovico Technique on him. They try to override Alex’s bad actions by forcing him to ignore his natural instincts. With actions like this it is no wonder that the youth is

By using art and music as an outlet, when he beats people he can distance himself from the violence and his victim’s suffering. Alex feels a strong connection to “good music” and tries to rid the Earth of any music that is unpleasant to his ears. In this instance, Alex and his gang friends decide to beat an old man who was singing poorly; the man cries out ‘It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there’s no law nor order no more.’ Music ends up turning on him when it is played in the background while go through the Ludovico Technique trials. After going through that, the music causes him to try to kill himself. That just proves what a huge impact music has on