Clockwork Orange Quotes

The main character for the novel A Clockwork Orange is Alex. Alex is a fifteen year old boy who lives in a dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian states who controls its population through violence, experiments and machines. The main character is not revealed at first but as the novel progresses, the audience learns that Alex is the main character because of the experiences and hardships that the reader learn from this character. At first, Alex seems to be just another delinquent citizen is this society because he seems to have nothing special in him. He speaks in slang language called nadsat which every other teenager uses and dresses with clothes that can be considered fashionable. Alex is part of the increasing youth violence in …show more content…
Alex states, “ ‘And what do I get out of this? Do I get cured of the way I am? Do I find myself able to slooshy the Old…’ ”(part 3, ch. 5, pg. 181). This quote represents Alex’s character because in the quote he questions whether he will be cured of his evil ways even though he doesn’t want to change for a bigger part of the novel. This quote also shows the struggle that Alex has to endure after the experiment. He is not able enjoy himself and go out and commit crimes with his friends. It is towards the end of the novel that Alex finally manages to transform his thoughts of immaturity and realize that there is more to his life. He realizes this through his old friends Dim and Pete. Dim became a police officer for the state and Pete managed to secure a family. Alex finds comfort in the idea that he can obtain a family with one child whom he can relate all of his experience and life lessons that he learned in his immaturity. In the last chapter of the novel, Alex grows out of his immaturity and realizes his mistakes. Alex represents human nature in that humans should be allowed to choose freely and be in control of their own