A Clockwork Orange Bookcover

A Clockwork Orange is narrated by a vicious fifteen-year-old droog named Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that renders his and his friends’ social pathology. When the state decides to reform Alex in order to “redeem” him, the true meaning of human freedom is called into question.

The book cover illustrates central themes of the story by symbolically illustrating Alex’s struggle against the forces that attempt to control him.