This reading is the one that I have enjoyed the most
this far. The entire time through
reading it, I was unsure of who was really sane and who was not. Even when the three physicists were admitting
their “true” identities, I was questioning rather they were just brilliantly
insane. Although I do believe that the
story resoluted this conundrum fairly clearly, the one that I believe to be of
interesting topic is that of Frau Doktor.
What she really the insane one? I believe that she showed signs of both
brilliance and insanity? Then there is also the age old question, can you
really be one without being both?
First,
I will begin with the side of the argument that says she is sane. For her to be sane means she is crazy smart
and manipulative. How can one be crazy,
but yet for this intertwining plan? She
is a strategists. She confirmed her suspicions
of the true identity of the three by getting the nurses to pretend to figure
out their sanity, and when they killed them all it confirmed her story. (Side note: Why would the nurses do this?
Unquavering loyalty? Ignorance? AND if the three men were so smart, why did
they not see the 3 oddly coincidental situations?) This also open the opportunity for her to infiltrate
the policemen hidden as attendants. She also shows sanity just by knowing the
significance of Mobius’s work.
However,
all these things are true, but would a sane person really believe that they are
the handmaiden of King Solomon (who is has had thousands of girlfriends) and
was hand selected to be the new “God”? I really do not think so. Furthermore, she truly believes that with
these three physicists, along with other funds, that she is going to create a
new galaxy. So if she is insane, is this
just another satire- being the only insane person in the asylum is the head of
it, not the residents?
I,
personally, am going to fall right smack dab in the middle of this debate. I think to be truly genius, you must be a
little crazy. Why? Because if you
thought the same way as everyone else you would come to the same conclusions as
everyone else. To truly be able to open
your mind to something completely new, your mind is open to everything which, I
imagine, makes you seem a little nuts.
