1/11/08

"The music was still pouring in all brass and drums and the violins miles up through the wall. The window in the room where I had laid down was open. I ittied to it and viddied a fair drop to the autos and buses and walking chellovecks below. I creeched out to the world: 'Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life.' Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to my left, and I shut my glazzies and felt the cold wind on my litso, then I jumped."

This is a major turning event in the book. The classical music, which has been a motif for Alex's childhood and his childish ways, would eventually lead to his attempt at suicide. It juxtaposes earlier references to the music, which once made him so happy but now drive him mad. The imagery created by the descriptive diction also shows how disturbed Alex seems to be in his mind.

12/19/08

"And all the time the music got more and more gromky, like it was all a deliberate torture, O my brothers. So i stuck my little fingers real deep in my ookos, but the trombones and the kettledrums blasted through gromky enough. So i creeched again for them to stop and went hammer hammer hammer on the wall, but it made not one malenky bit of difference"

This simile shows how the symbol of music is used now to show him going crazy. It juxtaposes the way music was used in the beginning of the novel, because it once represented peace and serenity. Now, it is shown to be used as a form of torture, and the repetition of hammer emphasizes how crazy it is making Alex. This is ironic, because music was always the one thing that could calm him down his whole life and now it is the one thing that makes him go mad more then anything.

12/12/08

"But these starry avengers still came after me, panting like dying, with their animal claws all trembling to get at your friend and Humble Narrator. Then I was tripped up and was on the floor and was being kicked at, then I slooshied golosses of young vecks creeching: 'All right, all right, stop it now,' and I knew the police had arrived."

The references to animals is a common motif throughout the book, producing the theme that people really are just like animals. The diction in this passage makes it seem like Alex is completely innocent and the people attacking him are barbarians, when in reality, it is the other way around. Alex doesn't understand when people act in the same violent ways as he does, showing that he is a very hypocritical character.

12/8/08

"Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."

This quote reflects a major theme throughout the novel, which is good vs. evil. This line has a huge impact on the reader because in such a short statement, it makes such a good point. The repetition of man emphasizes the importance of mans impact on himself as a human being. It also shadows another theme in the book, which is man vs. himself. This internal struggle battling with good and evil is one that occurs throughout the book.

11/21/08

"Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"

The classical music in A Clockwork Orange is a motif that occurs throughout the book. The music is the one thing that Alex thinks is beautiful besides music. It's obviously one of the only thing that gives him a human quality, and makes his character more realistic to the reader. Without this element of the story the reader really couldn't identify with the things that he is going through and makes him really unlikable. The classical music is a symbol for his human like nature, uncharacteristic of him throughout the book.

A Clockwork Orange

"The old veck began to make sort of chumbling shrooms-'wuf waf wof'-so Georgie let go of holding his goobers apart and just let him have one in the toothless rot with his ringy fist, and that made the old veck start moaning a lot then, then out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful."

Here, Alex is characterized as malicious, and evil. The harsh diction describing blood as beautiful shows how sick his mind really is. Also the repetition of the harsh 'b' consonant sound shows how crazy and harsh Alex is. He is sadistic, and enjoys watching other people in pain. This may be foreshadowing an inner problem Alex has with people who are educated, and like to read and write because those are the types of people he seems to enjoy picking on.