# The Droogs · the gang · ultra-violence

a character of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE — a member of the NOUTHESIA universe of warnings. emergence: natural. moniker ⟦The Droogs:ACO:ed4260⟧

**who —** The Droogs — Alex's gang (Georgie, Dim, Pete), partners in nights of theft and ‘ultra-violence.’
**what —** The youth-violence at the book's start: loyal, brutal, and quick to betray — two later become the police who beat the conditioned Alex.
**where —** In the streets, the bars, and the homes they invade.
**why —** Because the warning grounds itself in real teenage gang menace before it turns to the State's response.
**how —** By milk-plus at the Korova bar, Nadsat, and a casual cruelty that curdles into betrayal.

**the seal —** We were Alex's droogs in the ultra-violence — and two of us put on police uniforms and beat him senseless once the State had taken his fists away.

> a catalogued personification of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE under the DLW standard — literary commentary and cataloguing, not an
> original creation. © the Anthony Burgess estate.

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