Through the use of nadsat (the language they speak) they sound very kiddish at times. The whole book is focused on the question of free will. Alex and his peers use complete free will in all of their decisions, which is why there is a schism between the normal people and all of the gangs. The normal people are "A clockwork oranges", they are mechanical in the way they think and act because the government has made it this way. But since Alex and his droogs use their free will they choose to be violent instead of sedated and mechanical. “Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till's guts. But, as they say, money isn’t everything.”(Part 1 Chapter 1, Burgess), spoken by Alex he is basically saying that the gang steals and uses violence not because they need to, but simply because they enjoy
Through the use of nadsat (the language they speak) they sound very kiddish at times. The whole book is focused on the question of free will. Alex and his peers use complete free will in all of their decisions, which is why there is a schism between the normal people and all of the gangs. The normal people are "A clockwork oranges", they are mechanical in the way they think and act because the government has made it this way. But since Alex and his droogs use their free will they choose to be violent instead of sedated and mechanical. “Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till's guts. But, as they say, money isn’t everything.”(Part 1 Chapter 1, Burgess), spoken by Alex he is basically saying that the gang steals and uses violence not because they need to, but simply because they enjoy