Dr.+Heideger's+Experiment


 * Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: _Dr Heidegger’s experiment .__ **

**Point of View**: Omniscient


 * Protagonist: ** Dr Heidegger

Round and dynamic character
 * What type of character is the Protagonist? **


 * Antagonist: ** Nature of old age, death

The story takes place at Dr. Heidegger’s study/ Around the late 1900’s/ dark and gloomy
 * Describe the setting **


 * Type of Conflict: ** Man vs Nature


 * Describe the main conflict: ** Dr Heidegger wonders if he should drink from the “Fountain of youth”.


 * Describe the Climax of the Story: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Heidegger’s friends notice that the rose and the butterfly was starting to die again, and they too, were growing old again.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** Dr Heidegger didn’t know anything about what would happen if people drank the potion. In the end, he realizes that people will be too happy to avoid making the same mistakes again.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** In my opinion, the theme is “If people are given second chance, people forget about the mistakes they made in the past.” The title is “Dr Heidegger’s experiment”. His experiment itself was to see if people would be able to learn from the past and be able to avoid making the same mistakes.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** In my opinion, the theme is “If people are given second chance, people forget about the mistakes they made in the past.” The main conflict is that Dr. Heidegger wonders if he should drink from the fountain of youth or not. When he thought about drinking from the fountain, he knew there was going to be some disadvantages, such as overwhelming joy of youth that will cause people to make the mistakes from the past.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** In my opinion, the theme is “If people are given second chance, people forget about the mistakes they made in the past.” The climax is when Dr. Heidegger’s friends realize that they were getting older. When they got older, Dr. Heidegger realized that people won’t be able to learn from mistakes and they decided not to drink from the fountain.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Simile:** On the summer afternoon of our tale, a small round table, as black as ebony.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Metaphor**: There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoma, whose name was the Widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy old creatures.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Personification:** The skeleton had rattled in the closet.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Symbol:** The dead rose of Sylvia Ward, which symbolized the beauty that can never be brought back to life.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Foreshadowing (give both elements)**: [ “What may be the effect of this fluid on the human frame?” “You shall judge for yourself, my dear colonel,” replied Dr. Heidegger.] By this, we know what the experiment will be about.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Irony**: Dr. Heidegger was supposed to marry Sylvia Ward with her rose with him, but she died the day of the marriage.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Imagery:** It was a dim, old- fashioned chamber, festooned wit cobwebs, and besprinkled with antique dust. Around the walls stood several oaken bookcases, the lower shelves of which were filled with rows of gigantic folios and black- letter quartos, and the upper with little parchment- covered duodecimos. Over the central bookcase was a bronze bust of Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations in all difficult cases of his practices.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.** The class theme is “Humanity” The story is about how when people are given second chance, they always forget about their mistakes they made in the past and make the same mistakes again. As humans, we always forget about the mistakes we made in the past and don’t realize until we see the consequence of the action. As Humans, we should try to remember the mistakes and the consequences we experienced in the past.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**According to Dr. Heidegger, what is the purpose of this experiment?** To see the effect of the Fountain of Youth.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**What do Dr. Heidegger’s friends all have in common?** How does each of them behave during the experiment? Dr Heidegger’s friends were all old, feeling like they failed in life and was waiting for their life to end. During the experiment, they were overwhelmed by the fact that they were young again.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Why would Dr. Heidegger not stoop to bathe his lips in the fountain of youth?** Do his friends feel the same way? Comment. Dr. Heidegger noticed that even if he drinks from the fountain of youth, he will be old again, the youth will last for a short period of time.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Who is the narrator of the story? Though he is not a participant in the experiment, the narrator relates all the details. How does he know what happened to the doctor and his friends? How certain of his facts in the narrator?** In my opinion, the narrator is someone that lived sometime after the experiment. The rumors of the experiment was so widely known, people have talked and listened to the rumors of the experiment. The narrator doesn’t know a lot about the story because when the narrator was talking about Dr. Heidegger’s study, the narrator did say “If all stories were true,” which would state the uncertainness. = =

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**What points are made about youth and aging in the story? Do you agree with the views of the story? Comment**. The points made about youth and aging is that it is inevitable. I agree with this view because as humans, it is part of the human nature to age and eventually grow old.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Some Scientists hope to develop a vaccine against aging. They speculate that human beings could then live approximately 800 years. Do you feel this desirable? Explain your answer**. If I were given chance to develop a vaccine against aging, I would reject the offer because if we cannot die, there would be no reason to cherish our life. For example, when we save something, we don’t do it because we hate it, we do it because we like it and we want it to stay as long as it can. Same thing happens with life. We cherish our life because we want our life to stay as long as it can. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25/25

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nice choice of metaphorical images in your presentation!

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