A Clockwork Orange (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Burgess
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Dystopian
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Alex, Georgie, Pete, Dim, Pa, Mum, F. Alexander
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Satire, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Freedom, Language or languages, Teenagers, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Social issues, Future, Gangs, youth, Antiheroes, Law or legislation, England or English people, Violence, Good and evil, London, Ethics, Science fiction, Horror, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Behavior modification, Juvenile delinquency, Parole
- Locales: England
The Story:
Alex, a young, English “ultra-violent” gang leader, led his three “droogs” (or companions) in campaigns of robbery, mayhem, rape, and torture. Alex celebrated gratuitous cruelty and carnality, allowing nothing to get in the way of his impulses. After leaving the Korova Milkbar (the milk was spiked with various drugs) and ducking in and out of a pub, his gang beat up a “doddery starry schoolmaster type veck” (the gang spoke a dialect particular to their violent subculture) and destroyed his books, assaulted a man and woman while robbing their shop, and...
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