Reflections on Flowers for Algernon
Would you rather live in a blissful illusion or confront a brutal reality? Does ignorance truly bring more happiness than intelligence? Is a farmer content with a simple life in rural North Dakota necessarily happier than a mathematics professor in New York City?
For someone in deep misery, is suicide a true solution to their suffering, or merely the ultimate escape? Suicide does not resolve one's struggles; it only ends the person who must face them. Ultimately, is suicide an act of defiance or of avoidance?