The first question concerns Algernon and how he acts as an alter ego for Charlie Gordon. ... Humans will always seek to become more intelligent and improve on those humans who are, according to them, not intelligent enough or those who are born with certain disorders that make them incapable of increasing their intelligence, such as Charlie Gordon in the novel Flowers for Algernon; and the only way of helping these people to overcome their disorders will be with technology and science. ... Before the operation, Nurse Hilda expressed her opposition with the experiment to Charlie as well, and t...

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