In both A Clockwork Orange and Equus, the authors utilize irony in order to emphasize (blah). Safe behind night’s veil, Alex, a troubled teen, and his three friends/pals/droogs (?) wander across town, leaving behind them a trail of tears and bloodshed, and torn clothes/rape. With the moon held up high, Alex and his three droogs, as he calls them, stumble upon a cottage named HOME, described as having a “gloomy sort of a name” (Burgess 33). A word that implies safety, comfort, and family is turned around and described as gloomy instead. When Alex decides to break into HOME, destroy its rooms, pummel/thrash its master (F. Alexander), and rape its mistress, he along the way destroys the manuscript of F. Alexander’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE while at