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.