A Clockwork Orange | F. Alexander
F. Alexander—whom Alex describes as "youngish" and with horn-rimmed glasses the first time he sees him, and "a shortish veck in middle age, thirty, forty, fifty" the second time he sees him—is a liberal and a writer, outraged at the government's repression of individual liberties. Ironically, he is writing a book called A Clockwork Orange, which addresses "[t]he attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness ... laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation." In the novel's first section, Alex breaks into Alexander's house, where he and...
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