Dr.+Heidegger's+Experiment

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_Dr. Heidegger's Experiment_

Point of View: third person

Protagonist: Dr. Heidegger What type of character is the Protagonist? dynamic

Antagonist: Mr. Melbourne

Describe the setting: It doesn't exactly say in the story but it says they were not long ago in their graves, and after i think the setting is in a house.

Type of Conflict: man vs. himself

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict was that they were wanting to become young again and was too excited to become young again and thought they actually did become young again until they passed by a mirror and realized they weren't actually young.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story is when they drank the water from the fountain of youth and they thought they became young but they didn't because they were desperate to become young and they imagined they were young until they saw them self in the mirror they were actually still old.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? The protangonist, Dr. Heidegger 's experiment was to see if the fountain of youth actually worked and experimented on others. He warned them to use what they have learned in the past years but they didn't because they were too excited to be young again and the fountain of youth didn't actually work.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. the title is Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and i think the theme would be he inevitability of old age and death. And Dr. Heidegger's experiment is to see after drinking the water from the fountain of youth, would they become young and not stay at the old age.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict was, the drank the fountain of youth and thought they were young again until they passed by the mirror and they were actually old. The theme was Dr. Heidegger's experiment to drink the fountain of youth, and warned them to use their past knowledge.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax was that they drank the fountain of youth and the theme was ﻿Dr. Heidegger's experiment for them to drink it.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Simile: The Widow Wycherly adjusted her cap, for she felt almost like a woman again.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and marrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared skeleton.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification: The cused and dried petals stirred and asummed a deepening tige of crimson, as if the flower were reviving from a deathlike slumber; the slender stalk and twigs of foliage bbecame green; and ther was the rose of half a century, lookin as gresh as when Sylvia Ward had first given it toher lover.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: the symbol was the mirror to show what they actually look like.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): He warned hi friends to use their past knowledge to use after they drank the fountain of youth but they didn't.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: they danced in room and past by the mirror and saw themselves old.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: a small round table, as black as ebony, stood in the center of the room, sustaining a cut glass vase. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">wihered and crumblin flower blossomed five and fifty years ago.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">1. Dr. Heidegger's purpose of his experiment was to experiment if the fountain of youth actually makes you young again. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">2. Dr. Heidegger's friends were all in the grave not long ago and something bad happened to them beforethey died. During the experiment they were really excited because they felt their youngness coming and they wanted more to feel all their youngness come back. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">3. I don't think it really matters if they didn't stoop to bathe his lips in the fountain, but it was in a glass cup so they just drank it from the cup. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">4. The narrator of the story is Nathaniel Hawthorne. he knows wht happened to the doctor and his friends because he is the one takling, the narrator, which is needed o know they story. It was very easy to tell that the narrator part was writen a lot, not much dialogue happened in the story. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">5. Points that were made about youth in the story is when they showed them the rose that was vey withered and crumbling and after in was in the fountain of youth, it bloomed again. I agree with the views in the story because it makes a lot of sense and in the story it tells the points making you young again. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">7. No, because living that long ruins the nature, it will over populate and living that long can make you too old and it wouldn't be that great living that long. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Completion: 4.5/5 Effort: 4.5/5 Content: 4.5/5 total: 13.5/15

Question Completion Mark: 4/5

total 17.5/20