Ultraviolence and the Young

 (Image taken from the movie)

Within the society of  "A Clockwork Orange", there are certain elements that contribute to the dystopia. The main factor is the people and the government's reaction to these people. There are the ones who are the young people within the society, who are mostly vicious and unrelenting. In fact, one scene had Alex attack a couple's home, after they tried to act so hospitable to him:

     ""It's a book," I said. "It's a book what you are writing." I

made the old goloss very coarse. "I have always had the strongest

admiration for them as can write books." Then I looked

at its top sheet, and there was the name - A C L O C K W O R K

O R A N G E - and I said: "That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever

heard of a clockwork orange?" Then I read a malenky bit out

loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: " - The

attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and

capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the

bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and

conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this

I raise my sword-pen - " Dim made the old lip-music at that and

I had to smeck myself. Then I started to tear up the sheets and

scatter the bits over the floor, and this writer moodge went

sort of bezoomny and made for me with his zoobies clenched

and showing yellow and his nails ready for me like claws" (Burgess 30).

Alex, after raiding the house, ties up and beats the old man. He finds a book “A Clockwork Orange” And rips it up promptly. He then precedes beating up the man and raping his wife. 

     “We yeckated back townwards, my brothers, but just outside,

not far from what they called the Industrial Canal, we viddied

the fuel needle had like collapsed, like our own ha ha ha

needles had, and the auto was coughing kashl kashl kashl. Not

to worry overmuch, though, because a rail station kept

flashing blue - on off on off - just near. The point was

whether to leave the auto to be sobiratted by the rozzes or,

us feeling like in a hate and murder mood, to give it a fair

tolchock into the starry watersfor a nice heavy loud plesk

before the death of the evening.” (Burgess 33).

After the raid and rape, they take the car, ditch it, and proceed to the trains, where it would take them to the center of the city, where they generally reside in. They pay the fare as they should but vandalize the train.

     “Dim put on a hound-and-horny look of evil, saying: "I

don't like you should do what you done then. And I'm not

your brother no more and wouldn't want to be." He'd taken a

big snotty tashtook from his pocket and was mopping the red

flow puzzled, keeping on looking at it frowning as if he

thought that blood was for other vecks and not for him. It

was like he was singing blood to make up for his vulgarity

when that devotchka was singing music. But that devotchka

was smecking away ha ha ha now with her droogs at the bar,

her red rot working and her zoobies ashine, not having noticed

Dim's filthy vulgarity. It was me really Dim had done

wrong to” (Burgess 37).

At the Korova Milkbar, there were people who were new there. A woman started to sing a few bars of opera that was familiar to Alex, but Dim made a rude gesture to the woman. Though she didn’t notice, Alex didn’t leave it unpunished, for he fully enjoyed the opera. After punching Dim, they were about to have-with each other, but Pete assuages the situation. Alex justifies that he did it to put Dim in his place.