"The fruit of that tree was forbidden to man...it [isn't] too late to get out...It was evil when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge. It was evil when they saw they [were] naked, and learned about lust and shame. And they [were] driven out of Paradise and the gates [were] closed to them. If not for that none of us would have to grow old and be sick and die"(75)
Medical Science has performed many magnificent operations humans and animals. However, the question that plagues some people's minds is: Should there be a limit to what medical science can do for humans?
This point is often discussed through out the novel Flowers for Algernon. One of the main ideas that author tries to make the reader aware of the thoughts that goes through the mind of a human experiment.
In this novel, the protagonist, Charlie Gordon is 32-years old and mentally retarded. He receives an operation that gives him the ability to be intelligent. The book tells the story of his emotional and psychological struggle
Charlie's operation was exceedingly erroneous to begin with. Charlie was made to be mentally challenged and science should not have tried to change that. It caused him a gargantuan amount of emotional conflicts and stress. It leads to pain that will eventually scar his mind, even after he loses his intelligence at the end.
A problem involving the segregation is that Charlie is hopelessly dependent on the people whom he thought were his friends. When he becomes brighter, he realizes his friends were not laughing with him, but laughing at him. When his friends discover that he is more intelligent than they are, they become enormously disgruntled and force him to leave the workplace he has been reliant on for most of his life.
Algernon was not treated as an intellectual and that upset Charlie because he knew what that felt like. He did not want Algernon to be kept in a cage or to die like the rest of the lab animals. He wanted Algernon be buried respectively with flowers.
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