The Future Dystopia in A Clockwork OrangeA A Clockwork Orange is an anti-utopian novel, describing an imminent future in a stately, supervised country. The hero Alex rebels against the state using violence and is therefore locked up. He is subsequently transformed into a harmless subject, devoid of free will, incapable of committing any crime. Burgess paints a future vision of a land that is still committed to democracy, but has already adopted radical methods to tackle youth crime. There are several clues that lead to the assumption that the general form of government is socialist, for example the adolescent slang called Nadsat which mainly uses Russian vocabulary, streets named after personalities such as Yuri Gagarin and paintings of naked workers in the style of Russian. socialist art. So the state is about to become totalitarian, following the example of many communist countries. Furthermore, Alex lives in a society that lacks individualism and opposition. Under the harsh government regime, ordinary citizens are deceived and numbed by TV and drugs. Furthermore, books and newspapers are rarely read, theaters and cinemas are rarely visited. Everything is done to prevent normal subjects from thinking. The few people who represent an opposition against the government are thugs like Alex and political reactionaries like Alexander and his friends. The hooligans are relatively kept under control by a strong police force, the reactionaries have no support from the people. In fact, there is a regular opposition in the country, which however seems to come to terms with the party in power. This brings us back to Burgess's view that we should not trust the state. The hero Alex is in fact... at the center of the paper...tine Books, 1984, (1965), S. 171-177Hahn, Ronald M. und Volker Jansen. Uhrwerk Orange, in: Hahn, Ronald M. and Volker Jansen. Cultural film: from "Metropolis" to "Rocky Horror Picture Show". 4. Auflage. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1990, (1985), S. 293-303Kagan, Norrnan. A Clockwork Orange, in: Kagan, Norman. Stanley Kubrick's cinema. New expanded edition. New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1989, (1972), S.167-187 Melchior, Claus. Zeittafel zu Leben und Werk di 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 Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, in: Studies in the Novel, 11 (1979) S. 43-50