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.