Topic picked from the book clockwork orange - Research Paper Example

R. Deltoid, The prison chaplain, Billyboy, The prison governor, ‘Minister of the interior’, Dr. Branom, Dr. Brodsky, F. Alexander and Cat woman. The novel was purposefully written to show people that their past does not matter, and that whatever they were they can change from their past. Alex is the main character in the book, being portrayed as the violent one. Certain quotations from the book are subject to interpretation, and will be looked at in this essay. The first chapter has a quotation that catches my eye, which reads, “What’s it going to be then, eh?

” There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim. Dim being really dim and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry (Burgess, pg 10). In this extract, Alex has been portrayed as the figurative bad guy in the novel. He has a show of might and rank, calling his friends droogs, meaning that they answer to him. Alex is liberal, and this can be viewed by the use of his slang language.

He uses the language liberally and without worry. I can’t help but notice that he has taken the role of a leader, in that he is the leader of his gang of friends. Alex stands for a typical and highly successful teenager. This can be seen by the way he has dressed while with his gang, “The four of us were dressed in the height of fashion” (Burgess, pg 10). Also noticeable is how he tells of their wealth, “Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty to tolchok some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till’s guts.

But as they say, money isn’t everything.” (Burgess, pg 10) From this extract, I can say that Alex is in himself a master at the game of violence, and at everything he does. Though he knows violence and has participated in it, he still believes that there is more to life than money. From these quotations, a lot can be studied according to his personality. I can conclude without doubt that Alex is generic, mindless, has considerable knowledge of evil, substantive, is highly individualistic and from the looks of it is likeable from the way he carries himself.

As soon as his own boost kicks in, Alex leads his gang into the streets, where they find an old man carrying books home from the library. Sensing his fear, they first play with him for a few moments before beginning to assault him. After ripping apart his books and taking his false teeth together with his clothes, they let him walk away whimpering. The gang continues in their violent spree until the law catches up. He is betrayed by the very people he leads, with his one violent scheme not going according to plan.

Dim betrays him, and he finds himself beaten up and being forced to confess to his crimes. This shows that Alex is trusting, though from this it seems he trusts the wrong people. I see this in the extract, “Bog murders you, you vonny stinking bratchnies. Where are the others? Where are my stinking traitorous droogs? One of my cursed grahzny bratties chained me on the glazzies. Get them before they get away” (Burgess, pg 66). Dim chained him, and the rest were nowhere to be seen. He learns his lesson the hard way.