Passage 6

Passage: "He cried out: 'It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more.' He was creeching out loud and waving his rookers and making real horrowshow with the slovos, only the odd blurp blurp coming from his keeshkas, like something was orbiting within, or like some very rude interrupting sort of a moodge making a shoom, so that this old veck kept sort of threatening it with his fists, shouting: 'It's no world for any old man any longer, and that means that I'm not one bit scared of you, my boyos, because I'm too drunk to feel the pain if you hit me, and if you kill me I'll be glad to be dead." We smecked and then grinned but said nothing..."

This passage presses on the major theme of Alex's free will. He does whatever he wants, for the idea of free will allows him to do so. He has chosen a life of wickedness and cruelty. This passage is extremely significant because this old man is the first person to be fearless of these boys. As soon as this old man speaks out against them, the boys become more and more excited to beat him up. The idea of rebellion and power consume the boys. They let the old man speak of whats wrong with the world, but then beat him to a close death. The diction of this passage is important for the old man states how there is no order nor law anymore. This line represents the idea of how insanely wild the situation has become. The theme of free will is presented again, for without such law and order, the boys can actually do whatever they please. This adds to the idea that without laws, our world would be even more corrupt. Humans need to have boundaries set for them, it is in fact what sets us apart from every other animal in the existence.