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Alex is a fictional character in Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange and the film adaptation, in which he is played by Malcolm McDowell. In the film, his surname is DeLarge, referring to Alex’s calling himself “Alexander the Large” in the novel.
The American Film Institute rated Alex the 12th greatest film villain of all time, Empire selected Alex as the 42nd greatest movie character of all time and Wizard rated Alex the 36th greatest villain of all time.
Alex is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. He is portrayed as a psychopath who robs, rapes, and assaults innocent people chosen at random for his own amusement, also showing no remorse when he realizes he’s accidentally killed a woman he was trying to rob. Intellectually, he knows that this sort of behavior is wrong, saying that “you can’t have a society with everybody behaving in my manner of the night”. He nevertheless professes to be somewhat puzzled by the motivations of those who wish to reform him and others like…
