Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" - Discuss

Question 1

discuss

Answer 1

• Venn diagram to compare and contrast two ideas

Question 2

if you were writing that the four friends of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” did not get young again, what passage from the story would you use to support your thesis?

Answer 2

P 29: Meanwhile the three gentlemen…proved that the water…possessed some intoxicating qualities

Question 3

if you were writing that the four friends of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” did not get young again, what passage from the story would you use to support your thesis?

Answer 3

P 50: …the Water of Youth possessed merely a virtue more transient than that of wine

Question 4

if you were writing that the four friends of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” did not get young again, what passage from the story would you use to support your thesis?

Answer 4

P 36: Youth, like…age, had effaced the… characteristics of middle life, …assimilated them all

Question 5

if you were writing that the four friends of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” did get young again, what passage from the story would you use to support your thesis?

Answer 5

P 12: The crushed and dried petals stirred as if the flower were reviving from a death-like slumber

Question 6

if you were writing that the four friends of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” did get young again, what passage from the story would you use to support your thesis?

Answer 6

P 24: There was a healthful suffusion on their cheeks, instead of the ashen hue