Dr.+Heidegger's+Experiment


 * Short Stories - Literary Devises ** **Title:** Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

**Point of View:** 1st Person, and 3rd person.

**Protagonist:** Dr. Heidegger

**What type of character is the Protagonist?:** Round

**Antagonist:** Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killgrew, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherly

**Describe the setting:** The setting is in Dr. Heidegger’s house, in some room with a large fountain of youth. The time has to be in about the 1700’s and the atmosphere is very dark, with a hue of greatness.

**Type of Conflict:** Man vs. Man

**Describe the main conflict:** Dr. Heidegger is testing how old aged people will react to a potion that makes you young again. He is seeing if the ones being experimented on will try and fix their life, and make it better, or if they will do the same bad mistakes that they had done before.

**Describe the Climax of the Story:** The climax of the story is when Colonel Killgrew, Mr. Gascoigne and Mr. Medbourne are all fighting over Widow Wycherly. All of a sudden, during the fight, one of them looks in a mirror, and they find out that they never did you young. They found out that they just thought they were young.

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?:** In the begging of the story, Dr. Heidegger is amazed of the water, and what it can do. In the end is frightened of it’s effects.

**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme:** The theme of the story is, you can’t change what you have already done. This connects to the title because Dr. Heidegger is doing an experiment trying to change, what he find out later, what he can’t.

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?:** The main conflict is that Dr. Heidegger is trying to find out the effects of when you become young for a second time. It illustrates the theme, because the theme is just saying that the conflict will not work.

**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?:** The climax helps illustrate the theme because when the climax happens, that is when the theme is realised. When they realised that they just thought they were young, the realised that you can’t change what you have already done in the past.


 * Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): **


 * Simile: ** “As black as ebony”


 * Metaphor: ** “The ancient flower seemed ready to crumble to dust in the doctor's hand."


 * Personification: ** “ The picture of the young lady had stepped one foot upon the floor”

**Symbol:** The rose represented his wife. Although it was crumbled, it was not dead, and was still with him.

**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** The water was bubbling which meant that it might not be water. After they all drank, they thought they were young. It’s possible this water could have been an alcohol.

**Irony:** Dr. Heidegger’s friends did not think the water would work, but later, they were begging for more.


 * Imagery: ** “As it effervesced from the surface, resembled the tremulous glitter of diamonds.”

The class theme is humanity, and I don’t think it is very human like to try and go back in time to correct your mistakes. I think it would be more human like to own up to your mistakes and live them in your past.
 * Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story: **

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** Questions ** **1.** The purpose of the experiment is to see how humans will act if they can go back and relive life. Dr. Heidegger is seeing if the subjects will try and make their life better, or if they will do the same mistakes that they did before.

**2.** All of Dr. Heidegger’s friends have all previously made mistakes in their life. Also they are all old, and want to relive their lives. During the experiment, at first they all feel great and want more of the water, but then they start making the same mistakes that they did before.

**3.** Dr. Heidegger didn’t want to drink from the fountain of youth because he thought that the effects would be negative. His friends however didn’t follow the rules, and kept on making the mistakes that they had once done 50 years ago.

**4.** The narrator of the story is the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. She/He knows all the details because she/he wrote the story, and knows everything. Therefore the facts are very certain.

**5.** A point that are made in the story are that in your youth, you will make a lot of mistakes that you will regret for the rest of you life. I don’t agree with this. Although it is true, you can make those mistakes anytime in your life, not just in the youth.

**7.** I do not think this is desirable. Assuming that you would live for 800 years as and old fragile man/women, I’d rather have it that you’d die once you are that age. At a very old age, living isn’t great conditions, and in my mind, living like that for a long time would be awful. Even if it’s the case that you would live 800 years in your 20’s there is still many things that can go wrong.

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