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The Unknown Genius In The Play Proof By David Auburn
The Unknown Genius
Statistics, “show that most people receive up to 80 percent of their intelligence from their parents”. However, is this really true? Catherine the protagonist, was born from a father who was a remarkable genius. When her father got sick, she dropped out of school to take care of him; nevertheless, he died. In the play, “Proof” written by David Auburn, Catherine inherits plenty of her father’s extraordinary talent, as well as his super genius capabilities. Catherine is a genius and she is not insane. She is an expert at memorizing books as well as proofs, she understands all of her father’s complicated mathematical proofs without having prior background knowledge, and she was able to write a very extraordinary and complicated
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