Sound is a symbolic and critical motif within both the original novella and Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. In one instance in the novel, Alex is sitting in the milk bar with his drugs and states “One of those devotcha’s… Suddenly came with a burst of singing… O my brothers some great bird had flown into the milkbar.”. The motif of sound being a significant theme within the novel is greatly significant when measuring the extent to which sound depicts narrative and constructs meaning. Within the medium of literature, sound is often redundant; likely due to the textual nature and the inability to add audible
