"But with the freedom came a sadness. I wanted to be in love with her. I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, settle down.
Now it's impossible. I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both knew it." -p. 126
"'If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord in the first place. The fruit of that tree was forbidden to man. Charlie, if you done anything you wasn't supposed to--you know, like with the devil or something--maybe it ain't too late to get out of it. Maybe you could go back to being the good simple man you were before.'" -p. 107
the big main theme that the author tried to convey in this story was that with ignorance comes bliss, and with freedom also comes sadness. throughout this whole story you can see the happiness in charlie fade away in direct proportion to his IQ buildup. the other theme that i found was that humans are in a constant fight with their own intentions versus god's intentions. in most, if not all, cases, the fight is because god wishes for us to be imperfect, while we expect ourselves to be perfect. in the scientific present-day world, we're getting very close to achieving sort of the universal idea of perfection. the only problem is that with that perfection always comes some sort of counterbalance, which brings us back to the theme of freedom and sadness, and how freedom can never be entirely free.
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