Comparison of the final chapters of “A clockwork orange”, and “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”

Nadsat suits perfectly to Alex's' character because the nadsat is playful, lively and alive, like a word game. This is just like the youth of " A clockwork orange", who were also alive and playful, like youth should be, out to the final hours of day, committing crimes. The nadsat is also to a certain sense clever because it is made up of Russian words, which have been changed a bit, to make them childlike words such as "malchickiwick". This is also like the youth of "A Clockwork orange"

The novel has been set in an imaginary future, where all things have been changed around, as children control adults; the children have become violent towards older people. The nadsat has become, childlike words but have become used in violence. This suits it perfectly because; Burgess has warped the childlike, playful words into violent words used by the violent youth. The word "heighth" was adapted from a poets poem called " Satan and his Holy Angels", which could symbolise that the world has become evil, because of Satan, and his angels are the youth of the novel. This could be the reason that Burgess made the word "God" into "Bog".

In the final chapter this use of nadsat changes completely, because, the nadsat has become less frequent in normal speech as seen: " how about a nice yummy glass of something to keep out of the cold, O, Alex", also the nadsat that is used in the final chapter does not refer to violence as much although violence still goes on it isn't masked by nadsat as much as seen: "Bully cracked into him er er er, and the other two tripped him and kicked him", this shows too that Alex has matured from his youth.

The Nadsat in the final chapter therefore is not used in an aggressive manner, like the first chapter, and Alex has become less confident with using it, because he has realised that violence is not the way to go in the world, and so he now uses more mature nadsat.

The way that Pete's wife reacts to nadsat in the final chapter also shows how times have moved on: "" he talks funny, doesn't he?" said this devotchka, like giggling" This shows that all the youth of the first chapter have abandoned nadsat, as they matured too, as Pete says he is nearly twenty-one. Pete also describes that Greg, who has become a new friend of Pete's "runs little parties, you know. Mostly wine cup and word games" The way that Pete now plays word games shows how he still plays with the language of "A clockwork orange", but instead of through nadsat, through word games. This shows how the old youth of a clockwork orange have gone off the violent language of nadsat.

By the end of the novel Alex has changed as if by clockwork, because he cannot stop himself growing up into an adult and he knows that he will become one of the bullied people as the new youth are born, and if he has kids that they will go through the same process as he did, just like clockwork and he cannot stop it from happening: " and nor would I be able to stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world"

After chapter two, he said "I am a clockwork orange", this is because after Lodovico's technique, he had no free will because as he could not even protect himself from fights because whatever the doctors said he would do, in this sense he has become a machine, or a clockwork toy, like children's toys, as this novel has many references to children's things, which have been warped, like the milk with drugs in it, and now Alex being a clockwork toy. These attempts to change him failed because he had become a mechanism of the doctors, and change was forced upon him, but the final chapter of the book shows that people change and mature naturally from within, change cannot be forced upon them.

The novel "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" has a completely different structure to that of "A Clockwork orange". In Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde there is the use of multiple narrators, instead of just the one. This tells us, that there was no voice for the people not in the higher class of society with the upper class only important, because all the narrators are all high-class people with well paid jobs, as seen by: "Mr Utterson the lawyer" this shows that Victorians had a very narrow view of society. This relates to Robert Louis Stevenson's background because he was brought up in the upper middle classes of Edinburgh, he was raised as a Calvinist, in which the elect were the ones blessed by God, who turn out rich and the reprobates had a bad life, however Stevenson rebels against this and gives up law to become a writer, and he marries an already divorced woman with three children, he also by the final years of his life travels the world, this is why we only hear from Jekyll/Hyde in the last chapter, because Hyde represents rebellion , as Roberts life was very restricted, like Jekyll before he rebelled, but after he rebelled he was free like Hyde.

Stevenson breaks the book apart in this way because at the time he wrote the book, society was disintegrating, as immigrants were coming to London bringing disease, religion was breaking apart because of science, crime was rising, and there was a huge division of classes, and Hyde in the novel is represented as foreign, as he is described as "some damned juggernaut", which is a Indian religious statue which is carried through the streets not stopping even if people are crushed underneath it, portraying him a some sort of disease

The language of Jekyll represents that of the other narrators in the novel, because all of them are upper class men so they are expected to talk in a certain manner, as seen: "But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it", this is quite a high class way of speech, and Jekyll is narrowed by this way of speech because he is high class.

However in the final chapter, the language starts to change because he has to make a final decision about who to stay as, Jekyll, or Hyde, as he start to become scared, as when Jekyll starts to describe his transformation into Hyde the language becomes more fluent, fun, youthful language: "Edward Hyde would pass away like a stain of breath upon a mirror" However Jekyll's speech was respectable, but with boundaries, and was very sharp and did not flow like Hyde's.

Jekyll enjoys evil in the form of Hyde, because in a way it gives Jekyll an opportunity to experience free life without having to be a lower class. He enjoys the life of Hyde more because it has no boundaries, and he feels free with it. In Jekyll's normal life he is bounded by upper class rules so he has no passion, which he really wants. This resembles " A Clockwork Orange", as the final chapter of A clockwork Orange, ends unhappily, because Alex has lost all his passion, and beauty, because of his changes in music: "I was slooshying more like malenky romantic songs" when he was small he was full of life when hearing Beethoven, and he has lost that as he has become older, his fun youth days have gone. This is like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde because with Jekyll his class binds him, so he cannot be free and have wild fun, but when he is Hyde he is free and youthful: "I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity", he is also " younger, lighter, happier", and he gets a " heady recklessness" when Hyde.

Stevenson is like Hyde in the sense that, Hyde is a figure of rebellion again the upper class boundaries, and Stevenson did exactly the same as he rebelled against Calvinist beliefs. He could also be seen like Jekyll, bounded because of his class, but Stevenson bounded by his illness, and all the time he wanted to break free, and finally he did, to become an individual, not held back by beliefs, or morals.

This novel says that morals and classes cannot bind human nature, people have to become what they become, and there is no stopping that, because as people grow they will change, and rebel against beliefs, which they think, are wrong.