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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Dr. HEIDEGGER`S EXPERIMENT
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
AUTOR 
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College
Hawthorne's works belong to romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism, cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England,
combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. His depictions of the past are a version of historical fiction used only as a vehicle to express common themes of ancestral sin, guilt and retribution. His later writings also reflect his negative view of the Transcendentalism movement.
Hawthorne was predominantly a short story writer in his early career.
Hawthorne was predominantly a short story writer in his early career.
ANALISIS
PLOT
Conflict: All the old friends of Dr. Hedegger were unhappy, and complained about their lives, because they wanted to be young, and be able to change many things happened.
Rising Actions:
1 The old friends of Dr Heidegger arrived to his house.
2 Dr. Heidegger asked them to join him in one experiment, and he explained them about the water and the rose.
3 They saw the old rose bloom again, and they accepted to get into the experiment.
4 They drank that water until be young again. Everything in their outside look was different, but inside they were the same person, with all the old thoughts, mistakes, and manners that they had before.
Climax:
They started to do all that they use to do as before, and then they fought for the love of Mrs Widow Wycherly. So they turn Dr. Heideggers laboratory up side down until knocked over the table where the rose and the water were. The water was spilled and the rose fell down and it started to shrivel up again.
Resolution:
They saw what happened with the rose and they began to feel the same old person than before, and then they asked for more water, but Dr. Heidegger did not have more. So, they started to make plans to go and find the fountain of youth without conscience of their actions.
CHARACTERIZATION
Dr. Heidegger: He is a strange old man, good reader, respectful, scientist, intelligent, kind; loyal that lives in a big, old and dusty house. He is a man of one wife. (Flat)
Mr. Medbourne: A man that use to be rich, but he did a very bad business deals, and lost all his fortune. He is a poor beggar, sad, and unsuccessful. (Flat)
Mr. Gascon: He is a liar, dishonest, thief, betrayer and cheater. He was a famous politician. He lives in guilt, embarrassment and shame about his fault. (Flat)
Colonel Killigrew: He is a sick person, vicious, disorganize, alcoholic and glutton. He was a great soldier, but he became a vicious man. (Flat)
Widow Wycherly: She is a narcissistic, vain, flashy, superficial and materialistic person. She only cares about herself. He lives sad and frustrated because she is not young anymore. (Flat)
SETTING
Time: Between 30`s and 60`s.
Place: The old house of Dr Heidegger.
IMAGERY
Scenarios: In a city of US in an old mansion. Dr Heidegger’s house.
Other Elements:
Withered Rose: Inferred an old love, aging, death. Predicts what is going to happen with the characters because they will not change ever. Actually they will die.
Dust and spider webs: Reflex aging, decay, abandon, surrender. Describe the real condition of the characters.
Water: elixir of life that comes from the fountain of youth. It mean eternity, beauty and force. Maybe it was just alcohol or something that caused them some kind of hallucinations.
THEME
Everlasting – Youth (Dream of all human being). Everyone wants to live forever young, without diseases, responsibilities, problems with beauty, power, money and a all life ahead to enjoy forever without chains or consequences for any action.
MOOD
Romanticism: It’s because the past time were better than the present. (The characters yearn lo live in the past, things that already happened and never will live again)
IRONY
It is like a moral-irony because; this story reflex’s that people never change to be better even if they receive a second chance. When people are made on one way nothing can change the manners, thoughts or actions of someone, and that is a truth than none can turn round.
SUMMARY
The story is about a scientist named Dr. Heidegger. He invited some friends to make an experiment. All his friends are very old people, and all of them made a lot of mistakes when they were young. So, Dr. Heidegger asked them to help in the experiment, and he showed them a withered rose. Then he put the rose some kind of liquid that looked as water and the rose bloom up again. Professedly that water came from the fountain of youth. The old people drank the water and all of them rejuvenated, but at the time they felt very well and strong they began to behave at the same way than before with the same bad things that made their lives miserable. They began to fight and threw down the table where the rose and the water were. The four friends saw how the rose shrivels up again, and they looked at each other feeling the same way as an old person, and then they asked for more water, but Dr. Heidegger did not have more. So, they started to make plans to go and find the fountain of youth in Florida without conscience of their actions.
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