bionovitz 48).
             Alex's England is a socialized nightmare. People are forced by the government to live regimented lives in blocks of regimented apartments, all the same, all without individuality. Alex's only salvation is music, to which he responds emotionally, ecstatically (Devitis 105). To Alex, music is "gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh (Burgess 36)." He lies naked on his bed, surrounded by speakers, listening to Mozart or Beethoven while he daydreams of grinding his boot into the faces of men, or raping screaming girls, and at the music's climax he has an orgasm (Rabinovitz 49).
             However, for Alex, a creation of the society in which he lives, "there are
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