Flowers for Algernon

This once-fantastic book becomes less fantastic with every passing day. The development of medicine, science, and technology has reached the point where experiments on the human body and human abilities are becoming a real component of our lives. In the book «Flowers for Algernon», the main character is a mentally disabled man who agrees to take part in a scientific experiment. But the result of such an experiment is ambiguous and unstable. The scientists have two test subjects—the mouse Algernon and Charlie Gordon. Events develop with increasing intensity, and the former fool Charlie becomes a genius, though not for long…
The work raises eternal questions about how permissible human interference is in a sphere that, before the rapid development of science, was considered the privilege of the divine. Charlie became very smart for a while, but that did not make him happy. Quite the opposite. Disappointment—that is the result awaiting the main participant in the experiment. The feeble-minded man turned out to be strong in spirit. One might say that he lived two opposite lives and understood what is most important in the world.