Year of first publication: 1962

Publisher:  Penguin Books

Pages: 148

 

A clockwork orange

The book is about a society that is taken over by violent youthgangs.

The whole population is careless and bored and the people are living in growly cities

The society is very socialistic and that’s why everybody has to work if they are not sick

or pregnant and all the gangsters have to be replaced in the society as soon as possible because the jails are crowded.

The story is about Alex who’s a leader of a gang.

He is fifteen and has to go to school but most of the day he lays in bed watching television.

And when the evening falls  he terrorizes the town after drugging himself with hallucinogenic drinks.Alex is an intelligent boy but violent.

He ‘s cruel and he commits his crimes with pleasure; older people have to be punched,books have to be damaged and women have to be raped.

The love for classic music from Alex fortifies his feeling of violence.

After a fight within the gang Alex was betrayed by the other memders.

He is thrown into prison and sentenced to for fourteen years.

In jail he works himself to the bone for reduction of punishment.

Alex gets into trouble when a big fight turns into a killing and he gets the blame of it.

The government decides to give him an improvementtherapy .

The therapy is that he has to take drugs that make him feel ill if he thinks of violence.

And when he gets ill he becomes a very submissive person.

After the therapy he ‘s a free man but he can’t defend himself.

One item of the socialisti policy is that criminals are recruted to be policemen and many enemies of Alex are policemen.When he meets them, they bring him to a silent place where they beat him up.

After that he rings ,heavely wunded,the bell of a house and a man lets him in.

The man doesn’t know that Alex raped his wife last year who died after that.

His name is F.Alexander and he also fights against the growing power of the state.

But in contrast with Alex he’s peacefull and an intellectual

Alexander has just written a book that’s named ”A clockwork orange”and it‘s all about his protest against the way in which the state turns humans  into clockwork oranges.

And Alexander thinks that Alex is a perfect example of that practice and he wants to use Alex for his propaganda.Alexander brings Alex to his political friends but they are only interested in his...

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