In A Clockwork Orange, would Alex be distuingished as a viilain or a hero?

Question

Give reasons. I think he is both, but I want your opinions too

Answer 1

He beats people up. He rapes women.
Villian or hero? The fact that he might be considered a victim of the state or that he might engender some sympathy can't detract from his actions. he's a villian. a hero? He isn't a hero. He doesn't go through what might be considered a heroic cycle. The changes he undergoes are forced upon him. That, to me, excludes the notion or heroics in his latter actions.

Answer 2

He's a very weird boy. This book is set in the "future" so everything is a bit different. The milk bar that they go to has drugs in the drinks so it makes them violent. But he is a villian until the 'treatment' in which he becomes a victim.

Then in the end after they reverse the treatment he actually goes good of his own accord, but at no point is he a hero

Answer 3

It's a tricky one. He's a very violent criminal but is the story's protagonist. On the other hand, in the plot of the story, he's captured and has something done to him that makes him a victim and he has to try to survive. So, I would say anti-hero.

Answer 4

I would have to read the book again. I've forgotten it but I still remember George Orwell's 1984, so unless this is homework help it might not need that much scrutiny.

Answer 5

He is the protagonist, the main character. He does grotesque things, and terrible things are done to him. He is an anti-hero, where the State destroys the best thing about him, when trying to destroy the worst.

Answer 6

Maybe an antihero.