Seduction of Two Young Girls

Alex goes to the MELODIA record shop to buy Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. He meets two ten-year-old girls, Marty and Sonietta, and lures them to his flat with promises of food and music. He plies them with alcohol and drugs, then rapes them while listening to the Ninth Symphony. The girls are initially playful but become frightened and leave, threatening to call the police. This event shows Alex's predatory nature and his ability to manipulate the young. The use of Beethoven's Ninth as a backdrop to the rape underscores the novel's theme of the coexistence of beauty and brutality. Alex's actions are a direct challenge to the idea that art can moralize.