A Clockwork Orange (novel): Difference between revisions

** Alex's nadsatNadsat slang is partially based on crudely anglicized Russian, so Russian-speakers might better understand it from the onset. However, part of the fun for some readers is learning the argot as they go along. And, some Russian-speakers may find the primitive translations rather annoying.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The Writer, upon realisingrealizing who Alex is, proceeds to torture Alex with the same kind of sadistic glee that Alex had previously shown him.

* [[Neologism]]: Some of Alex's nadsatNadsat [[Future Slang]] has trickled into common usage, most notably "horrorshow" and "ultraviolence." "Droog" is widely understood as well, though not very widely ''used''. An alternate name for the trope is [[Grokking the Horrorshow]] after all.

* [[The New Rock and Roll]]: Subverted. Music really does inspire Alex to commit horrible acts, but it's ''classical'' music that he listens to. He speaks of "Ludwig Van" as an icon. The trope is emphasisedemphasized when Alex reads a newspaper article that suggests a keener interest in the arts might stop teenagers from committing crimes. He laughs at it.

** Burgess adapted it into a play for the express purpose of making sure that no-one else would, as they would surely take the film version as their source. To distance it as far as possible he actually made it a musical, much of the dialogue taking its metremeter from the works of Beethoven, and the play has it's definite end where the author intended, Alex growing up and getting bored with youthful madness. It even includes a fantastic summation to the play's intended message to the tune of the fifth sympthonysymphony (which you'll find in the quotes section). The script even suggests that a man dressed as Stanley Kubrick should come onstage trying to sing "Singing in the Rain" as a counterpoint, and get lynched by the rest of the cast.

* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Alex often mixes this with his nadsatNadsat slang.