A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess
Characters in A Clockwork Orange
10 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Fifteen-year-old gang leader and narrator, articulate, music-loving and without remorse. The novel gives him no surname; DeLarge was invented for the 1971 film.
Antagonists
Billyboy
Leader of a rival teenage gang and Alex's enemy on the street.
Supporting characters
Dim
The slow-witted, brutish member of Alex's droogs.
F. Alexander
A writer whose home Alex's gang invades, and who reappears later in the novel.
Dr. Brodsky
One of the two scientists administering the Ludovico Technique.
Georgie (A Clockwork Orange)
Ambitious droog who challenges Alex for leadership of the gang.
Pete (A Clockwork Orange)
The quietest of Alex's droogs.
Dr. Branom
The second scientist running the Ludovico programme, gentler in manner than Brodsky.
P. R. Deltoid
Alex's post-corrective adviser, the social worker assigned to keep him out of trouble.
Alex Jacobi