A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) der St. Hedwigskathedrale – Ferenc Fricsay – Irmgard Seefried, Maureen Forrester, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ernst Haefliger". In the novel, Alex is conditioned against all classical music, but in the film, only against L. v. Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", the soundtrack of a violent Ludovico Technique film. The audience does not see every violent film Alex is forced to view during Ludovico conditioning, yet the symphony's fourth movement is heard. Later, using the symphony's second movement, Mr Alexander, and fellow plotters, impel Alex to attempt suicide. Although two excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" are heard during Alex's Biblical daydreams while reading the Bible in
Alex (A Clockwork Orange) in the novel "A Clockwork Orange". The character is portrayed as a sociopath who robs, rapes, and assaults innocent people for his own amusement. Intellectually, he knows that such behaviour is morally wrong, saying that "you can't have a society with everybody behaving in my manner of the night". He nevertheless professes to be puzzled by the motivations of those who wish to reform him and others like him, saying that he would never interfere with their desire to be good; he simply "goes to the other shop". He speaks Nadsat, a teenage slang created by author Anthony Burgess. The