I'm so impressed to see a practical review of this. When I read the book, I didn't have anyone to talk with about it. I was stuck contemplating things with Nadsat expressions running through my head for weeks.
This was a very provocative book about free will. I hated Alex and was relieved when he decided on suicide. There's kind of some redemption at the end, but I'm glad that some consequences were illustrated.
It makes me think of all the major quality writing that comes up in lists of banned books. I've never seen this book on any of those lists, but it fits the type.
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For sure, it is funny how something like catcher in the rye got so much backlash and this one did not. Both are from teens who are troubled but Burgess’s teen is way worse than Salinger. Maybe it is because people could not bother reading the book because of the Nadsat?
I read an interview that was one of the reasons why Burgess used nadsat, to show how easily one could be influenced by propoganda, because as you say, finishing the book you already begin to think in Nadsat.
Yes, luckily there was some justice, but as you said it feels like there was not enough and that’s why you cannot like the main character too much even if you need to accept him in order to maintain free will. It is a deep topic, free will and consequences of one’s actions.