Dr.+Heideggers+Experiment


 * Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: **__Dr. Heideggers Experiment__


 * Point of View: **Third person


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


 * Antagonist: **Himself

They are in the past. The mood is suspicious and exciting.
 * Describe the setting: **They are in the house of Dr. Heidegger.


 * Type of Conflict: **Man vs. Himself

Dr. Heidegger makes an experiment. He gives some of his friends water of the Fountain of youth and looks what’s happening.
 * Describe the main conflict: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The climax of the story is when the friends of Dr. Heidegger get old again and understood that the Experiment didn’t work.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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;">He changes his mind about drinking the water from the fountain of youth.
 * <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? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The title shows us that Dr. Heidegger is a doctor and that he is going to make an experiment. The theme is about Dr. Heidegger making an Experiment to know if he wants to drink the water of the fountain or not.
 * <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. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Heidegger thinks of drinking the water of the Fountain. He makes an Experiment to find out whether he should drink it or not.
 * <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? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The climax tells us that the Experiment didn’t work.
 * <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? **


 * <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;">...and wit a visage as faded as her dress.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, wih its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“…, when a chambermaid had lifted it, merely to bush away the dust, the skeleton had rattled in its closer...”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__This rose__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,” said Dr. Heidegger, with a sigh, “this same withered and crumbling flower, blossomed five and fifty years ago. It was given me by Silvia Ward,...” -Its a symbol for love!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“My poor Sylvia’s rose!” cried Dr. Heidegger, holding it in the light of the sunset clouds; “it appears to be fading again.” -It foreshadows that Dr. Heideggers friends are going to get old again as well.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“…, and died on the bridal evening.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They stood still, and shivered; for it seemed as if gray Time were calling them back from their sunny youth, far down into the chill and darksome vale of years.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Imagery: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The old friends of Dr. Heidegger didn’t have good lives, so they wanted to live it again in another way. When they got young they did the same faults as before. This tells us that Humans don’t really learn out of their faults. __**Questions**__
 * <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. **
 * 1) The purpose of Dr. Heidegger's Experiment is to find out whether the Dr. should drink the water of the Fountain or not.
 * 2) They were all melancholy old creatures, who had been unfortunate in life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves. They were very excited and hoped that the experiment would work.
 * 3) Dr. Heidegger would not stoop to bathe his lips in the Fountain of Youth, because he saw his friends doing the same faults they did before again. His friends didn't even noticed it.
 * 4) The narrator of the story is a third person. The narrator knows everything about the persons and is like a ghost with the persons in the room and knows exactly what happens.
 * No, I don't think this is desireable, because we are made to live just a short live and I think it isn't a good idea to overthrow the nature and make live a long life. I guess living 800 years would be really boring too.
 * No, I don't think this is desireable, because we are made to live just a short live and I think it isn't a good idea to overthrow the nature and make live a long life. I guess living 800 years would be really boring too.

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