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The novel is set in a future London and is told in nadsat, a mixture of Russian, English and American slang, gipsy talk and, odd bits of Jacobean prose. Alex, the main character, is a juvenile delinquet, who is brainwashed by authorieties to change his murderous aggressions. As an unexpected side effect he starts to hate Beethoven's music, losing symbolically his deeperseated sense of humanity. The central question of the story is a metaphysical and social one: is an "evil" human being with free choice preferable to a "good" zombie without it?

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