"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment:" Story Analysis

 

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He started writing short stories, and then began to write novels: the scarlet letter is Hawthorne’s best-know novel. It made him famous around the world. Hawthorne is one of America’s greatest writers.

  Summary: the story is about a man named Heidegger. He invited his four friends to his house but this had something important to show a small experiment. this miraculous water was over-unity to rejuvenate people, they managed to take it but on condition that not to commit the same mistakes but ultimately fail or be forever young and avoid to repeat their mistakes of the past.

 Conflict:    Heidegger wanted to demonstrate their experiment.

Rising actions:  
     

                 He invited his four friends
                leads to laboratory to show the experiment                     

                 Heidegger tells them about his miraculous water

                 he puts on the rose water and then this back to how it was before
                The four friends took the water

climax:   when the glass fell and spilled all the water in the ground

Resolution: they don’t learn anything from the mistakes

Characters

Heidegger’s: main character, older man with white beard , kind, intelligent

Mr.medbourne: secondary character, older man with white beard , miser

Mr. Gascon; secondary character, older man with white beard , was a famous politician, dishonest, mean

Colonel Killigrew: secondary character, older man with white beard ,is a sick man, no health,  

Widow Wycherly:  secondary character was beautiful, it's an older woman was vain and conceited.                                        

Moral: people must learn from their mistakes

I liked the story, though short was very interesting was the fact that he was talking or rather tell the story of these people and older who were unhappy about the things they had done of young tells us how life can be to us if not We are sorry for the bad actions we take at times. History reminds us that sometimes human beings do not learn anything from the mistakes we make and this story is a good way a reflection of ourselves.