Flowers for Algernon
Ignorance makes you unaware of anything but yourself and while you are unaware of all the problems you will not feel the stress. Which is ignorance is bliss. Before the operation Charlie was similar to a little child. He acted how kids acted when they were little. After the operation Charlie looked back at his old progress reports from before the operation and he came to realize how many grammatical and punctuation errors he had. After the operation Charlie could not communicate with other people very well and it was probably because people were not used to his intelligence being so high and they still talked to him as if he was the old Charlie.
Charlie is often teased by coworkers while he is at work, but Charlie is very unaware of the fact that they are making fun of him and he truly believes that they are actually his friends. In that case Charlie will not get upset or sad over what is going on because he doesn’t know that he is being made fun of.
Ignorance can also be suffering. Where someone like Charlie is in a world of their own and he feels a sense of loneliness. He uses books and libraries to learn and that is what he does when he is lonely.
Being smart gave him so many opportunities that he wouldn’t have any other way, but it also seemed to damage him. If he had been left as he was before he would have never understood the world around him, ignorance was bliss and as being smart he showed him how cruel the world really is. Charlie was the way nature intended him to be. Before he had the surgery he may not have been smart, but he was so happy. He worked happily as a janitor, he was very motivated to learn and he also had a great time with his so called friends.
Ignorance really is bliss for Charlie because he realizes that his so called friends were just using him to get some entertainment. Also, he was fired from the job that he loved so much because his new intelligence made those