Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange in 1963, the novel protesting what he saw as England’s increasingly authoritarian government. It is told through the voice of a teenaged Alex, of whom is a very dislikable protagonist, he being a thief, rapist and murderer, though somehow the reader growing sympathetic toward him as he becomes a victim of a dystopian England’s justice system, one of which psychologically conditions wrong-doers to negate crime and render individuals as robots. This hence explains the title, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, Burgess explaining it as "an organic entity, full of juice and sweetness and agreeable odour, being turned into a mechanism.” A Clockwork Orange is quite a challenging read, it being written in a slang called nadsat, therefore the narration of Alex initially making little sense. This therefore encouraged me to DNF this book last year, however with my draw to dystopian literature I decided to give it another chance, and halfway through found myself coming to understand nadsat and then able to engage with the key critiques of the novel, of which primarily arise around this point, allowing the reader to get ahold of the fictional language. In the end I enjoyed A Clockwork Orange, found the political commentary very engaging, and am thankful I gave it a second chance and checked off another iconic piece of dystopian literature from such list.