Language Deprivation Experiments - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • The "forbidden experiment" occurs in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.
  • In The Twilight Zone episode "Mute" (1963), several children are raised in such a manner to foster telepathic communication.
  • In the Batgirl comic series, the title character, Cassandra Cain, is deprived of spoken language during childhood. This was part of an attempt to create a martial artist with an exceptional ability to interpret body language, as it was believed that this would give one a great advantage in close combat.

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