all his appetites" (Alleger 170), in which Alex and his "droogs" murder, fight, rape, steal, vandalize, and rob for the mere thrill of it. There is a definite spectacle of pleasure in the violence they casually commit. There is no implication of Alex being insane, which truly makes it sick that he chooses the course of a true barbarian. He is completely sane to choose. Part one finally commences with Alex being caught by the police, after being sabotaged by his "faithful droogs".
             In Part two, Alex is no longer known as "Alex", but rather he assumes the prison number "6655321." "I was 6655321 and not your little droog Alex not no longer" (Burgess 78). During his prison term, he is selected for an experimental government treatment to help put changed criminals back on the streets as upstanding citizens. In the treatment he is shot with a drug and forced to watch atrocities on a large cinema screen. This results in his associating that type of behavior with a
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