“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim….and we sat in the Korova milk bar making up our rassadooks what do with the evening”(1.1; ch. 1), this was a typical night of a “nadsat” or teenager. A bunch of hoodlums, going around committing acts of violence and crime, for they have moral freedom; which they choose to do bad. First they assault a young man in an alley, and then they go to this author’s house, and vandalize it and rape his wife. But while at this house, they come across a book called A Clockwork Orange, and Alex reads about it: “

After waking up from his beat-down, Alex walks to a nearby village and to a house, with the Home sign on it. He doesn’t know that it is the house of the author of A Clockwork Orange, but he recognizes Alex and takes care of him. F. Alexander, the author and his friends want to make the public aware of the evils of this new Ludovico technique. Meanwhile Alex becomes mentally weak, and cannot take anymore of this trauma, he decides to commit suicide. He jumps out of a window, but does not die…(3.169; ch.6).

The fall has somehow cured and freed Alex from the effects of Ludovico’s technique, he has again become his bad self again. He soon returns to his thug-habits, and a new group of droogs to surround him. Even with his regained freedom, he chooses not to commit “ultra-violence.” He becomes reacquainted with an old droog who now has a wife and son and now wants a wife and a son of his own. Alex through time has matured from adolescence to adulthood.

After being released Alex goes back home to Flatblock 18A, where surprisingly his parents think he has escaped and they now live with a new lodger; Unwanted Alex goes to the “Public Biblio,” where he is attacked by an elderly mob of “vecks” who recognized Alex as the one who ruined all the books on crystallography. The police come and break up the fray; to Alex’s surprise he recognizes two of the millicents. One is Billyboy, his old nemesis, and the other is Dim, his old droog. They take him out to the country and beat the life out of him; he cannot defend himself because of the conditioning.

The rehabilitation technique used upon Alex is that of responsive conditioning, with the use of drugs and films. This type of conditioning forces Alex to feel sick when confronted with evil sites or thoughts. Also included in this conditioning was the use of classical music, which Alex used to love, and now feels nausea when he hears it. After his fortnight, a two-week period at the institution, Alex seems to be “cured,” a situation is created where he is to use violence against an aggressive man, but he is unable to because of the conditioning. All the people attending the demonstration see how effective the new te

Some topics in this essay:
State’s Peace, Ludovico Technique”, GF Handel, Anthony Burgess, Meanwhile Alex, Unwanted Alex, Orange Alex, Georgie Dim…and, Clockwork Orange, , moral freedom, clockwork orange, alex goes, 2126 ch 7, ch 7, traitorous droogs, ludovico technique, ch 1, 2126 ch, alex goes home, wife son, ch 3,