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Week 1 Research Project Comment — Erin Kasiou
12021-02-22T15:15:43-08:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d309861plain2021-02-22T15:15:43-08:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7dThe examination of ‘Flowers for Algernon’ through an eco-critical lens provides an interesting insight to Keyes’ use of the scientific ‘other’. A common trope, it may at first seem unusual that the ‘other’ in this situation is a lab mouse, as normally in science fiction it is a machine or alien of some sort. By considering the empathy for nature that this portrayal evokes, the reader is better able to understand the purpose of this ‘othering’ and how it challenges the place and authority of humanity in our world; a common objective of science fiction writing. Further, the parallels drawn between mouse and human mirror those often constructed between human and machine, or human and alien, further encouraging readers to question the nature of humanity. Thus, this eco-critical examination of flowers for Algernon enables a better understanding of the functioning of its science-fiction tropes.
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