A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange: Situational Irony 1 key example

Part 3, Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Alex Replaced:

In Part 3, Chapter 1, there is a moment of situational irony. After Alex is released from Staja Prison, he goes to a café and imagines the relief and excitement his parents, whom he often calls pee and em, will feel at his arrival:

What it was going to be now, brothers, was homeways and a nice surprise for dadada and mum, their only son and heir back in the family bosom.