Burgess paints a future outlook of a land which is still committed to democracy, yet has already adapted radical methods facing youth criminality. There are several indications leading to the supposition that the general form of the government is a socialist one, e.g. the teenage slang called Nadsat which handles chiefly Russian vocabulary, streets named after personalities like Yuri Gagarin and paintings of nude working men in the style of Russian socialist art. So the state is on the say to become totalitarian, after the example of many communist countries.

In addition Alex lives in a society which lacks individualism and opposition. Under the strict governmental rule ordinary citizens are deceived end benumbed by TV and drugs. Moreover books and newspapers are hardly read, theatres and cinemas rarely visited. Everything is done to prevent normal subjects from thinking.

The few people representing an opposition against the government

What Burgess wants to say in the last analysis, is that we must be very cautious of the persons who control science and technology as they are merely imperfect men like anyone else.

Burgess on the one side criticizes the state but on the other side the persons and groups opposed to it.

Indeed this novel gives us several warnings. I have occupied myself with the three major ones, all of them closely related to the examples I have just quoted.

Now it should be the intention of every good piece of anti-utopian literature, to give a warning against something. Orwell warns us of the absolute power a totalitarian regime could practice on us, if we tacitly let it happen and don’t care about political matters.

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