<P> Alex is the narrator, protagonist and antihero in the novel A Clockwork Orange . The character is portrayed as a sociopath who robs, rapes, and assaults innocent people for his own amusement . Intellectually, he knows that such behaviour is morally wrong, saying that "you can't have a society with everybody behaving in my manner of the night". He nevertheless professes to be puzzled by the motivations of those who wish to reform him and others like him, saying that he would never interfere with their desire to be good; he simply "goes to the other shop". </P> <P> He speaks Nadsat, a teenage slang created by author Anthony Burgess . The language is based on largely English and Russian words, but also borrows from other sources such as Cockney rhyming slang, Romani speech, and schoolboy colloquialisms . His beverage of choice is milk spiked with various drugs, which he and his fellow gang members ("droogs") drink to fortify themselves for "ultraviolence". Alex is very fond of classical music, particularly Ludwig van Beethoven, whom he habitually refers to as "Ludwig Van". While listening to this music, he fantasises about endless rampages of rape, torture and slaughter . Alex's favourite melee weapon is a "cut - throat britva", or straight razor . </P> <P> Alex lives with his parents in a block of flats in a dystopian England in which his brand of "ultraviolence" is common . At the age of 15, he is already a veteran of state reform institutions (In the film, he is somewhat older). While the youngest of his gang, he is the most intelligent, and designates himself as the leader . Another member of the gang, Georgie, resents his high - handedness, and begins plotting against him along with the rest of the gang . One night, the gang breaks into a woman's house, and Alex assaults and kills her by ramming her face with a sculpture of a penis and testicles (in the film: in the book it is a bust of Beethoven). As Alex flees from the house after hearing police sirens, Dim hits him with his chain (a milk bottle in the film) and the gang leaves him to be arrested . Alex is found guilty of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison . </P> <P> Over the next two years, Alex is a model prisoner, endearing himself to the prison chaplain by studying the Bible . He is especially fond of the passages in the Old Testament portraying torture and murder . Eventually, prison officials recommend him for the Ludovico Technique, an experimental treatment designed to eliminate criminal impulses . During the treatment, prison doctors inject him with nausea - inducing drugs and make him watch films portraying murder, torture and rape . The treatment conditions him to associate violent thoughts and feelings with sickness . Alex is particularly affected by watching footage of Nazi war crimes set to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, one of his favourite pieces of music, and he can no longer hear it without feeling sick . </P>

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