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Part One, Chapter 1
Alex introduces himself and his gang of droogs: Dim, Pete, and Georgie. They spend the night terrorizing their neighborhood, starting with robbing a man carrying library books, th…
Part One, Chapter 2
Alex and the droogs rob a couple on a country road, then break into a writer's home called HOME. They beat the writer, Mr.
Part One, Chapter 3
The gang returns to the milkbar, then Alex goes home alone to his flat in the municipal tower block. He listens to classical music, specifically a violin concerto, and the music s…
Part One, Chapter 4
Alex skips school and spends the afternoon with two girls he picks up at a record shop. He brings them back to his flat and has sex with them, then sends them away.
Part One, Chapter 5
Georgie pushes back against Alex's leadership, proposing a bigger, more ambitious job. Alex reasserts control by cutting Georgie's hand and then agreeing to lead the new plan hims…
Part One, Chapter 6
Alex and his droogs carry out one of their most brutal raids yet, breaking into the home of a writer named F. Alexander and his wife.
Part One, Chapter 7
Alex's leadership starts to crack. Dim and Georgie push back against his authority, and a fight breaks out within the gang.
Part Two, Chapter 1
Alex is in prison. He has been convicted of murder after the gang abandoned him at the scene of their last raid.
Part Two, Chapter 2
Alex hears about the Ludovico Technique, an experimental government program that promises to cure criminal behavior and earn prisoners early release.
Part Two, Chapter 3
Alex begins the Ludovico treatment. He is injected with a drug that causes intense nausea and then forced to watch films of extreme violence.
Part Two, Chapter 4
Alex is deep into the Ludovico treatment. He spends his days strapped to a chair watching violent films while the drug in his system makes him physically sick.
Part Two, Chapter 5
The Ludovico treatment is nearly complete. Alex is brought before an audience of government officials and journalists to demonstrate that the conditioning works.
Part Two, Chapter 6
Alex is released from prison. He gets his belongings back and walks out into the city.
Part Two, Chapter 7
Beaten and left in the countryside, Alex stumbles to the nearest house for help. The house turns out to belong to F.
Part Three, Chapter 1
Part Three opens with Alex still at F. Alexander's house, now surrounded by the writer's political associates.
Part Three, Chapter 2
Alex wakes up in the hospital after his suicide attempt and slowly realizes he is no longer conditioned. He can think violent thoughts again without getting sick.
Part Three, Chapter 3
Alex leaves the hospital and tries to return to his old life, but things feel off. He visits the record shop and finds it has changed.
Part Three, Chapter 4
Beaten and lost, Alex stumbles to a nearby cottage for help. He recognizes it as the home he and his droogs invaded in Part One, and the man inside, F.
Part Three, Chapter 5
F. Alexander's group keeps Alex in the flat and feeds him, but the atmosphere grows threatening.
Part Three, Chapter 6
Alex survives the fall and wakes up in the hospital again. The government spins his second near-death as more evidence against the opposition, and Alex becomes a media figure.
Part Three, Chapter 7
Alex walks out of the Korova Milkbar with his old droogs, but something feels off. The ultra-violence and the old music no longer do anything for him.
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