also states that before raping two girls he, pulled the lovely ninth out of its sleeve and I set the needle hissing on the last movement, which was all bliss. [Anthony Burgess, A ClockWork Orange. 46] To Alex, music augmented emotion. After undergoing Ludovicos method, a play on Skinnerian techniques, the real life term for aversion counterconditioning, which featured classical music such as Beethoven in its violent films, Alex reacts to music much the same way he reacts to violence. Burgess intended this to symbolize the states destruction of humanity and its destruction of an angel, since music is a figure of celestial bliss. In A Clockwork Orange, Burgess criticizes the states theory impressments of good on juvenile delinquents. Much same as he criticizes societys theory that the hooligans are not a product of the culture they live in. To the question: is an evil human being with free choice preferable to a good zombie without it? Burgess states, Perhaps the kind of humanity that can produce Hamlet, Don Giovanni, the Choral Symphony, the Theory of Relativity, Gaudi, Schoenberg and Picasso must, as a necessary corollary, also be able to scare hell out of itself with nuclear weapons. That is to say the perhaps the only difference between Hitler and Einstein is the manner in which they invested their genius. To take it one step further, without evil there is no good. Without a villain there is no hero. To destroy one would cause the death of the other. Humanity, therefore, good or evil, is a necessity, not to be sacrificed for the good of six million Jews, or the American Indian civilization or the good of English Society. In another book, Any Old Iron, Burgess uses the subjugation of the Welsh people in feudal times and the exploitation of Welsh regiments of modern times as an example of the oppressiveness of the English. Additionally, he criticized the frailty of marriage within English society during World War II. The book begin...
