The use and effects of fictional argot in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange

In the essay the writer gives us some reasons about why Anthony Burgess decided to use the "nadsat" in his book A Clockwork Orange. He created the nadsat, it is a combination of English and Russian.  This makes a the reading of the book kind of hard but after some time you start remembering the words and it gets easier.

It is useful to investigate about how the book is written before reading it because if not you won't understand a thing. Nadsat it’s a complicated vocabulary therefore it has it’s own glossary with the words so we can understand, but Anthony Burgess didn't do it too make us struggle while reading it if not he used it for good reasons.

One of the most significant reasons I think it is for being able to differentiate between characters. The young people used the nadsat with the purpose of forming a “gang” and the old people used regular English. The word ‘nadsat’ is a Russian suffix for

 ‘-Teen’.  Burgess was trying to create a whole new different vocabulary for the teens in his novel.

In this book we are expected to read a constant violence throughout the story and Burgess tried a new way of describing and saying things without them sounding vulgar. We would now have the choice of either understanding the meaning of the words or leaving them unexplained if we want to.

For me these where the most important reasons for the use of the nadsat in his story.  I think he was trying to make his way of writing very particular outside of everyone else’s style of writing.  Martin Nixon (the essay writer) explained in a fulfilled way every reason why he decided to use the nadsat in A Clockwork Orange.