Dr heidegger's experiment class
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This three-sentence summary provides an overview of the key elements and themes in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": The story describes an experiment conducted by Dr. Heidegger where he has four elderly guests drink water from a mysterious vase in an attempt to regain their youth; the vase and its water represent symbolic allegorical elements and the story explores themes of the supernatural, foreshadowing, and high emotional feelings in an attempt to impart a moral lesson to the reader.
Dr heidegger's experiment class
- 1. DR. HEIDEGGER’S EXPERIMIENT By Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 3. -A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities -Allegorical characters are often one- dimensional, since they are meant to represent only a particular aspect of human nature -Allegories also contain a moral
- 4. Characters: -Dr. Heidegger -Mr. Medbourne -Colonel Killigrew -Mr. Gascoigne -Widow Wycherly Describe the characters and quote to support your views
- 6. The Rose The Mirror Water The skeleton What do they symbolize?
- 8. Dr. Heidegger’s study -Describe the place. -Quote to prove your ideas
- 9. -THE SUPERNATURAL -OMENS/FORESHADOWING -HIGH EMOTIONAL FEELINGS -WOMEN IN DISTRESS Find evidence for this in the text
- 10. Mention 2 themes and support ideas with the text
- 11. -Is there a "moral" to this story? If so, what is it? What is the point of the first-person narration here (as opposed to third-person)? -Do you take the narrator to be Hawthorne, or some fictional character? -Is "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" meant to be funny at all? Where do you see humor in this text, and what is the effect of such humor on your reading of the story? -Is Dr. Heidegger a likeable character? A sinister one? As a reader, do you relate more to him or to his guests? -You've heard us argue both sides, but what's your final answer – is the water in the vase really from the Fountain of Youth, or does Dr. Heidegger just get his guests drunk?