I hate him , I hate him and want him to die, but that way he won’t suffer, I want him to suffer, the way he made others suffer, and even worse. He is the most savage, most abhor able, most despicable servile trash vonny grahzny character I have encountered in a book ever. Yes, that is alexander , and did he suffer? Did he pay for his deeds?
If there is good, if you had a blessing that went by the name of mahtma Gandhi, here we have a person who is bad, and it all comes naturally to him, to be bad, to inflict suffering on others and relish it , red red krovvy real horrorshow!!!. Now that makes him an aberration, human beings were born to be kind, to be kind and helpful to others, in order to expect similar returns from others. So, if we have an aberration among ourselves of this kind, a person for whom music is an inspiration for violence, what do we do with him? Isn’t that the reason why law was created in the first place? But something which law doesn’t clarify is the purpose of law,. If correction be the purpose then we have failed and failed horrendously. In 1984 , they changed Winston, they made him believe it, that 2+2 could be 5, could be 3, and till he didn’t have a deep rooted believe in it he was made to suffer. But in here Alex , the epitome of ultra violence, was not made to suffer in the proportions of his heinous act ( two years of jail term, where he could listen to his favorite music followed by a fortnight of video watching can’t be called suffering for an insane thief, bully, murderer, and rapist.) . So they took away his freedom, his choices from him , so is that unfair? They couldn’t change in a way his natural inclination to violence all they took away was ability to perform the act. So, in my opinion though he is not cured completely at least he won’t be able to inflict upon others his natural self. And if you think taking away his music and art from him was a cheap trick, hello , let me remind you what that inspired him to do. So if he couldn’t slooshy Ludwig von or wolfgang Amadeus that was because they instructed him to kill.
So he had a chance to change, but change can’t be forced on oneself, it has to come naturally and that’s what happened at the end of the book which makes you feel happy, for at last the society is spared of an animal. But not for him, only thing that makes you feel good is that there is hope, because youth they say in a way is like an animal but the best part is that you grow up.
But did he suffer ? did he pay for his unpardonable heinous deeds? At the end of the book he was cured. He had the freedom to think 2+2 = 4 and that is what I hate. Never he felt sorry for what he did, while he was selfish enough to think about himself all the time .” where did I figure in all this ?” He had the temerity of taking help from a man whose wife he killed and not enough courage to tell the man in his face. I hate him and I wish he rots in hell and that is why I like the book, I have seen heroes, I have seen villains, but well here Anthony Burgess gives you your own anti hero. I wish alex could always be ‘a clockwork orange’.
