Good + Boese = man

The 15-jehrige Alex is the leader of a gang of youths vierkoepfigen that draws consuming and raping by an unnamed city in an Orwellian future. Finally, Alex is arrested and has for several years in jail. One day he receives a tempting offer on parole when he agreed to take on an experiment of the government. Alex has two weeks to undergo a kind of shock therapy, which makes it impossible for him ever again to use force against other people. The experiment succeeds. The mere thought of a rape, for example, Alex prepares unbearable physical pain. He is released from prison, the former perpetrators, now even helpless object of Rachegelueste his former victims.
This book has a message that is in the phrase "When a Man can not choose he CEASES to be a man" (63) conveys. "A Clockwork Orange" is a pamphlet for the right of every person to live his life according to his personal will, even if that life consists of robbery, murder and rape. A Manipilation of the human brain, the drive, even if it is done for the benefit of the community offentsichtlich, is categorically rejected.
It takes a time until one has read in the novel. This is mainly due to "nadsat", the language of the teenagers in the dystopian world of "A Clockwork Orange". Burgess used more than 200 fantasy words whose meaning sometimes results from the context, sometimes the reader but also prepares big headache. A good example of nadsat provides the first rape scene of the novel: "So he did the strong-man on the devotchka Who was silent Creech Creech creeching away in any horror show for-in-a-bar, locking her Rooker from the back, while I ripped at This and That and The Other, The Others going haw haw haw still, and real good horror show groodies theywere did then Exhibited Their pink glazzies, O my brothers, while I untrussed and got ready for the plunge "(19f.).
Now the film. Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" from 1972 still heated tempers. In some countries, for example Great Britain, he is also still banned for alleged glorification of violence. But much more important in the context of the novel, that Kubrick omit the last chapter (the now famous Chapter 21). The moral of the story is so completely different. Burgess himself, by the way, was from the first movie quite thrilled later revealed but angry that he will probably be remembered as the man in the story, who supplied the book presentation to a brilliant film.