How Does Intelligence Change Charlie's Personality

Not only does Charlie intelligence change his personality it also has affected his attitude and how he communicates and interact with people. For example Charlie’s coworkers are intimidated by his advancement in intelligent and it causes him to be fired from his job due to the discomfort of his outstanding intelligence that bother his coworkers “You come pushing in here with your ideas and suggestions and make the rest of us look like a bunch of dopes”(106). Mrs. Fanny tells Charlie the difference between the old Charlie and the new and intelligent one “The way you change! I don’t know. You used to be a good dependable man—ordinary not too bright maybe, but honest…light everybody been saying it isn’t right” (107). Charlie used to be a kind
For example learning commas were a start and not only that Charlie did a lot of reading which increase his intelligence throughout the novel “I’m reading a lot these days and almost everything is staying in my mind”(48). Before the operation Charlie was concluded to be an individual who brought joy to others but now Charlie is consider to be a rude individual “you developed from a likable, retarded young man into an arrogant, self-centered, antisocial bastard” (247). By the influence of significance increase in intelligence it has change Charlie’s mentality and how he starts to view the world around him. Charlie first interaction to view the world is when he went to see a film with Alice Kinnian. Confused by the film’s fictional genre Charlie, demonstrates signs of understanding how the world actually works and Alice notices this as well “Even in a world of make believe there have to be rules…You’re beginning to see and understand things”(78).Not only does the increase in intelligence change his mentality but his emotional state of mind as well. Charlie has taken an attraction to Alice and is somehow in love with her “My feelings for you won’t change because I’m becoming intelligent. I’ll only love you more” (92). Charlie’s emotional state is being caused by his increase in intelligence and Charlie’s original state was nothing more than to turn to his teacher for advice without having any feelings for her
For example Charlie’s contribution towards the experiments and he had made a theory called the Algernon-Gordon effect of the doctors techniques on how they perform the experiment. “As I show my reports, these and other physical and mental deterioration syndromes can be predicted with statistically significant results by the application of my new formula”(254). Charlie then concluded that the intelligence will fade away rapidly eventually. Another reason why Charlie is a hero because how he treated Algernon. He treated Algernon like an individual with human rights “I wasn’t going to let them dump him right in the incinerator. It’s foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. I wept as I put a bunch of wild flowers on the grave” (258). Unlike the doctors, Charlies actually has feelings towards Algernon and show signs of sad emotions putting flowers on his grave which was humane. Finally another reason why Charlie is a hero is because even though he lost his intelligence he still desires to be smart “Anyway thats why im gone to keep trying to get smart so I can have that feeling agen”(310). Even though there may be a very low possibility of Charlie to have even basic intelligence he attempts to either way and wants to do what is