The language of A Clockwork Orange“Gooly in a world where nochy soonopniks rule and oobivat and in the daytime everything is fine.” This is the nature of A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess, in which you enter the world of a fifteen-year-old named Alex who speaks a vernacular language and does what he likes. This molody nadsat, or young teenager, leads a life where crime is a true horror show as he dodges the millicents, or cops, to live the life he wants in the mysterious and bustling city where he resides. Alex and his shaika oobived too much obscenities, though, and the millicents loved it. He then becomes a plenny in the StaJa, far from his moloko, snoutie or his beloved classical music. As a plenny, he undergoes tests by flattering the sinnies, making him burst from pain at the meal of krovvy or guttiwuts. After the tests, Alex returns to the streets as a real horror monster, unable to incite or incite crime. Finally, he meets a ded whose zheena he had already oobivated, and is tricked into almost ending his jeezny by thinking of sins and being forced out of an okno and falling many raskazzes. Alex survives, however, and returns to a jeezny of crime and keeps the ghostly city of him. The previous paragraph provides an example of what much of the language in A Clockwork Orange is like over the course of the novel's progression and is partly why it developed. such a cult following since its release in 1963. What Burgess did was take English as a base language and, through the use of English, Russian, Arabic and Gypsy slang, form a all its own that actually manages to accurately represent both Alex's mentality but also the brutality of the world in which he lives. Some of its wo...... middle of paper ......restrictions in the form of minor laws or regulations. Alex also expresses this interest. While it's not common among today's youth to start a riot or go on a killing spree, Alex feels this is his way of living a carefree life. However, since his freedom has been "denied", he attempts to vent his anger by committing suicide. Again, today's teens generally don't veer toward these extremes. The parallel reaction of today's youth to Alex's reaction would be the excessive use of innuendo, the free use of the vernacular, the indulgence in pleasure of all kinds, and the display of mock violence to relieve distress. It's interesting that there is such a shocking similarity between our world and that of the novel because the novel was written in 1963, a time when there were certainly many differences between the opinions of teenagers then and those of today..