Dr. Heidegger's Exparament
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Essay
In every experiment, the conductor is out to prove a particular theory. That is the case in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. The story consists of four extremely old people specifically chosen by Dr. Heidegger, three men and one woman who had known each other when they were younger. In the experiment, each subject is given the chance to be young again by drinking from the fountain of youth. In his experiment, Dr. Heidegger may have been testing the properties of water or the responses of the subjects to the water.
In the story there is plenty of evidence to show that Dr. Heidegger was testing the response of the subjects. One theory that he may have been testing was that if the subjects would learn form their mistakes and not make the same ones. Many years ago when the four subjects where younger, the three men were madly in love with the one woman, Widow Wycherly, so much that they almost killed each other over......
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