Alex (A Clockwork Orange) in the novel "A Clockwork Orange". The character is portrayed as a sociopath who robs, rapes, and assaults innocent people for his own amusement. Intellectually, he knows that such behaviour is morally wrong, saying that "you can't have a society with everybody behaving in my manner of the night". He nevertheless professes to be puzzled by the motivations of those who wish to reform him and others like him, saying that he would never interfere with their desire to be good; he simply "goes to the other shop". He speaks Nadsat, a teenage slang created by author Anthony Burgess. The
The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End tries to impress on them that poetry arises from craftsmanlike effort, not emotional self-indulgence. The students, however, just look at him pityingly and ask him when he plans to leave. As the title suggests, "The Clockwork Testament" also gives the author a chance to explore his own bemusement over Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange": Burgess came to hate the film that made him famous. This autobiographical element is most apparent in the talk show scene, where Enderby's fellow guests (an actress and a psychologist) attack the poet for his involvement in a film version of "The Wreck