society and violence

Question 1

societal susceptible

Answer 1

to sadism, which demonstrates a cynical view: that individuals are predisposed towards barbarism.

Question 2

Burgess uses violence

Answer 2

not only to contrast the forces of good and evil, but also to cause readers to look within themselves at their own capacities for nastiness.

Question 3

blood

Answer 3

“out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful”

shows his delight in violence

Question 4

aesthetic

Answer 4

“blood seemed to pour out (…) in the winter starlight”

Alex’s descriptions of pain and blood have a particularly aesthetic quality

Question 5

alex

Answer 5

is the ultimate poster-child for amorality, since he delights in violence for violence’s sake.

Question 6

The Government

Answer 6

in Alex’s world is rather Machiavellian, and will do anything to ensure its own survival as well as the stability of the State.

Question 7

2nd murder

Answer 7

Alex again tries to shift the responsibility onto others

“it was your idea”

Question 8

Alex’s rationalisation of violence

Answer 8

“an eye for an eye, I say”

Question 9

the doctors enjoyment of the films

Answer 9

and Alex’s suffering affirms that they have the same sort of sadistic impulses that they aim to destroy in Alex