Inviting
my/the character to Hell
By: Eugenia Camargo
In Clockwork orange, the main character, Alex, is part of a
group of “malchicks”, they call themselves ”droogs” or “drogos”. They all
terrorize people for fun, we have Alex as the narrator of his own story and his
actions are always triggered by evilness. He fits in several circles of Dante’s
Inferno.
Alex has this idea in his
head in which he is the leader of the “drogos”, and for some reason he thinks
the others are aware of this. He likes situations that are very
“horrorshowish”, for his personal entertainment. Alex manipulates everyone
around him. That’s why I chose Judecca as the first circle I would place him
in. Judecca is the circle for traitors with benefactors. Alex receives money
from his “pe” and “em”, they give him education and a home, they are his
benefactors. The poor “pe“ and “em” are lied upon and manipulated constantly by
our dear Alex. Before the treatment Alex receives to become a good citizen, he
tells his “em” that he is sick and she makes him a “chaz of chai” leaves
breakfast on the oven and leaves to work worried for her little “nadsat” which
means teenager. What she doesn’t know is that Alex goes out only to “tolchock”
some “chellovecks” in the
“kishkas”, or in the “yarbles”, or even in the “oozy”.
Alex is peculiar in many
ways, he us a genius for music, self-thought and a big lover of classics.
Nevertheless he uses music to motivate his violence, that’s one of the reasons
he fits on the 7th circle the violent. He killed an old “devotchka”, because she was not afraid of
him, so he is a murderer.
Alex would be welcomed to
the 8th circle (Fraud) with open arms as well; he steals, seduces,
and is a hypocrite. He goes every night to someone’s house breaks in and
terrorizes them then steals money and pricy belongings. Once he intoxicated two
young “ptistsas” after seducing them and convincing them to go to his room,
finally he gave them the old “in-and-out” treatment he loved so much, very
“horrorshow” he would say. He also attacked his “drogo” Dim when he was
defenseless and apologized to him even when he wasn’t sorry which is being
hypocrite. These are just a few examples, but they are enough.
He has this instinct that
shows the reader he is capable of anything if it benefits him and only him.
Last but not least, I would place Alex in Atenora the circle for traitors to
their homeland. Contributing to the chaos of his country, making it a bigger dystopia,
sucks the so longed and wanted peace of his homeland.
Alex realizes a sadly late
that his behavior comes from the silliness of uneducated youth. Alex would fit
in 3 main circles of Dante’s Inferno, circle nº 9, nº 8 and nº 7. Thankfully
Alex doesn’t just realize his mistakes he gets punished harshly throughout the
book, that all expatiators see with our own “glazzies” we almost pity Alex for
some chapters but I guess it was poetic Justine in the end.
In this essay you may need
to know:
Droogs - Friends
in violence
Tolchock - Hit, push, strike,
kick, etc
Chelloveck - Man
Kishkas - Guts, stomach
Yarbles - Testicles
Britva - Razor
Oozy - Chain
Devotchka - Woman
Creech creech creeching -
Screaming, screeching
Horrorshow - A term of
approbation, good, impressive, well, etc
Rookers - Hands, arms
Haw haw haw - Laughter
Glazzies – Eyes
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