comparison of alex and jack meridew
...s without having a sense of style about it. There is nothing in his background that can explain why he is so vicious; as his state-appointed guidance councilor, P.R. Deltoid, puts it to him, "You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside you?" His chief interest, besides rape, thievery, and bloodying up innocent people, is classical music, about which he is truly passionate. He remains pretty much the same Alex—although Ludovico's Technique causes him, for a time, to act very differently from his old self—until the very end of the book, when he begins to grow up and tire of violence. jack : The strong-willed, egomaniacal Jack is the novel’s primary representative of the instinct of savagery, violence, and the desire for power—in short, the antithesis of Ralph. From the beginning of the novel, Jack desires power above all other things. He is furious when he loses the election to Ralph and continually pushes the boundaries of his subordinate role in the group. Early on, Jack retains the sense of moral propriety and behavior that society instilled in him—in fact, in school, he was the leader of the choirboys. The first time he encounters a pig, he is unable to kill it. But Jack soon becomes obsessed with...