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The most impactful quotes from Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange from the Best of A Clockwork Orange Quotes guide. This concise resource highlights key quotes and offers brief analysis, providing quick and valuable insights into the novel's central themes, characters, and symbols. Perfect for OCR English Literature students, this guide is an excellent tool for quick reference, essay writing, and exam preparation.

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Quotes to learn:
Dystopian World 'so skorry these days'
Nature bleak + bare - dystopian.
'heighth of winter.'

'a terrible grahzny vonny world.'

'I don’t want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.' 'stinking because… no law
nor order no more.' (repeats) - 'cracked into him lovely'

'if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.'

Alex says 'traitors… traitors and liars… there was no trust anywhere in the world.'

'carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.'
Alex fantasises about


Drugs and Lawlessness 'they had no licence for selling liquor' Movie: 'Serum 114' in Ludovico technique
'no law' VICTORY GIN
'vellocet' drug. Implying speed. Drugs like Soma - which Burgess read (Brave New World) shortly after its
'knives' - although he does think drugs are 'cowardly' release.
'synthemesc; - drug - which Alex says his music is better than.


Ultra-violence and Gore 'crasting any more pretty polly.' stealing money
Gory and he enjoys it as he describes the act as a 'waltz' (dance).
'tolchok some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood. 'rip up the book I got' - Fareneheit 451

billyboy is 'opened up like a peapod, with his belly bare and his poor old yarbles showing.' Classical music of 'Ludwig Lan' inspires violence in Alex, 'Slooshy a bar or so of
Ludwig Van… viddied right at once what to do.' - which was fight.
Cutting Billyboy mouth 'so that two curtains of blood seemed to pour out… like red
curtains.'

'krovvy flowed beautiful red' and 'comes out the blood, my brothers, real beautiful.


Rape 'getting ready to perform something on a weepy young devotchka… not more than ten.'

in his apartment, dreams of people 'screaming for mercy… Devotchkas ripped and
creeching against the walls and I plunging like a shlaga into them..'

'bruised and pouty…' looking 'like they had been in some big bitva (fight).' Refers to rape as
'their education.' Gets them 'very very drunken.'
Dress and Clothes 'heighth of fashion'
'black very tight tights'
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