The Brain story
A dead man seeks his own murderer through contact with a doctor keeping his brain alive. It is based on the novel Donovan's Brain (1943).
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brain disembodiment technology | major | Dr. Peter Corrie disembodied the brain of wealthy financier Max Holt who died from injuries sustained in a plane crash. He also disembodied a monkey's brain. |
| father and daughter | major | The financier Martin Holt and his daughter Anna Holt. |
| greed for riches | major | Max Holt profited from the suffering of humanity by withholding a new life-saving drug over a year while he awaited a monopoly to develop. As a result, his daughter arranged his murder so that she could release the drug. |
| mind control ability | major | Max Holt's disembodied brain was telepathically taking over Dr. Corrie's mind. |
| obsession | major | Dr. Corrie was obsessed with continuing his experiments on Max Holt's disembodied brain, even when it appeared he would get in trouble with the law. |
| personal identity | major | Dr. Corrie's mind became mingled with that of Max Holt inside Corrie's body. |
| animal cruelty | minor | One of Dr. Corrie's assistants raised the possibility that Corrie's experiments on monkey brain disembodiment could constitute animal cruelty. |
| father and son | minor | Max Holt's son became a painter because it was the choice of profession that the son reckoned would most annoy his old man. |
| misanthropy | minor | It was said that in life Max Holt hated all mankind. |
| unethical human experimentation | minor | Dr. Peter Corrie insisted that science had to take shortcuts, i.e. perform illegal experiments on human brain disembodiment, in order for science to advance. |