Dim - A Clockwork Orange

Dim, is one of Alex's droogs, along with Alex, Georgie and Pete. Dim was a slow-witted brute but was well respected by the gang for his muscle strength and fighting abilities. Dim even wielded a long chain length that he carried on his waist as a weapon. Georgie and Dim were the oldest members of the gang and they seem to be very close to each other. Georgie is Alex's second-in-command who attempted to undermine Alex's status as leader. Georgie was also outspoken, ambitious, and somewhat greedy. In the film, he wielded a Shillelagh (Irish Walkingstick) that he used as a club. In the book, he wields a Nozh (knife). Personality: Dim is unintelligent and child-like, but highly aggressive. He is as violent as Alex and the other Droogs, but is a stronger fighter, being described by Alex in the fight with Billyboy as "worth three of the others in sheer madness and dirty fighting." He rarely has his own ideas mainly following others; first Alex then after the fallout Georgie. In the novel, Georgie was killed during a botched robbery during Alex's imprisonment. In the film, Georgie and Dim were now police officers who at first rescued Alex from a group of Tramps. But after realizing Alex's appearance, it gave the two men the chance to exact revenge on Alex for all the torture he put them through while being under his command by taking Alex outside of town and half-drowning Alex in an animal trough while beating him senseless with their blackjacks dozens of times. Droogs are a group of young violent men who were led by Alex Delarge. They all speak in Nadsat which is English that contains Russian and Early Modern English terms and phrases.In both the novel and the film, the Droogs were first introduced sitting at the Korova milkbar and intoxicating themselves with "milk-plus" (milk that contains drugs such as LSD, synthetic mescaline, or adrenochrome) to sharpen them up for the evening of ultra-violence. Trivia: "Dim" is short for "Dimitri"