“What’s it going to be then, eh?” – the opening line of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.
In the story, we are introduced to young Alex and his droogs, who like nothing more than “lashings of the old ultra–violence”. It is Alex who commits their first murder, and after being betrayed for droog-related political reasons, is sent to jail. Through a new controversial rehabilitation treatment, designed to curb violence and sexual behaviour, the state use
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