The future dystopia in A Clockwork OrangeA Clockwork Orange is an anti-utopian novel, describing an imminent future in a majestic and supervised land. The hero Alex revolts against the State through violence and is therefore incarcerated. Later, he is transformed into a harmless subject, without free will, incapable of committing the slightest crime. Burgess paints the future prospects of a country still attached to democracy, but which has already adapted radical methods in the face of youth crime. There are several clues suggesting that the general form of government is socialist, for example the adolescent slang called Nadsat which deals mainly with Russian vocabulary, streets named after figures like Yuri Gagarin, and paintings of naked workers in the style Russian. socialist art. The State is therefore on the verge of becoming totalitarian, like many communist countries. Furthermore, Alex lives in a society devoid of individualism and opposition. Under strict government rule, ordinary citizens are deceived and numbed by television and drugs. Moreover, books and newspapers are hardly read, theaters and cinemas rarely visited. Everything is done to prevent normal subjects from thinking. The few people who represent opposition to the government are thugs like Alex and political reactionaries like Mr. Alexander and his friends. The hooligans are relatively controlled by a powerful police force, the reactionaries have no support from the population. There is indeed a regular opposition in the country, but it seems to collude with the ruling party, which brings us back to Burgess's view that we should not trust the state. The hero Alex is actually ...... middle of paper ......tine Books, 1984, (1965), S. 171-177Hahn, Ronald M. and Volker Jansen. Uhrwerk Orange, in: Hahn, Ronald M. and Volker Jansen. Cult film: from “Metropolis” to “Rocky Horror Picture Show”. 4. Auflage. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1990, (1985), S. 293-303 Kagan, Norrnan. A Clockwork Orange, in: Kagan, Norman. The cinema of Stanley Kubrick. New expanded edition. New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1989, (1972), S.167-187Melchior, Claus. Zeittafel zu Leben et Werk von Anthony Burgess, in: Burgess, Anthony. A clockwork orange. 1. Auflage. Stuttgart: Phillip Reclam jun., 1992, S. 247-249 Melchior, Claus. Nachwort, in: Burgess, Anthony. A clockwork orange. 1. Auflage. Stuttgart: Phillip Reclam jun., 1992, S. 251-260Rabinovitz, Rubin: Ethical values ​​in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, in: Studies in the Novel, 11 (1979) S. 43-50