Flowers for Algernon | Themes
Science and Technology
Relating the story of a mentally impaired man whose intelligence is increased through surgery and then lost, Flowers for Algernon touches on a number of literary themes. The most obvious of the novel's themes is the use and abuse of science and technology. The critic Mark R. Hillegas has identified Flowers for Algernon as the type of science fiction which deals with "problems imagined as resulting from inventions, discoveries, or sci-' entific hypotheses"—in this case, a surgical procedure that can turn a person of subnormal intelligence into a...
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