Dr.Heidegge's

**Stories - Literary Devises Title**: CyrenaNagy **Point of View:** Narrator  **Protagonist:** Dr. Heidegger

Dynamic, round
 * What type of character is the Protagonist? **

**Antagonist:** waters of the fountain of youth

**Describe the setting:** Dim, dusty, old-fashioned, walls of bookcases, creepy, and in the late 1800 early 1900's

**Type of Conflict:** Human vs. self

**Describe the main conflict**:The old people that took the water think that it’s making them young but it was really there minds tricking them.

**Describe the Climax of the Story:**The climax of the story would be when the liquid spills onto the floor and they realize that they won’t be able to stay young.

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** He conducts his experiment so by the end of the story, it’s no longer an experiment because he knows the results.Antagonist: Dr. Heidegger

The theme is like the story because he does an experiment to see if the liquid will make them young.
 * Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: **

The main conflict helps illustrate the theme because it helps create a picture of what happens after he conducts the experiment.
 * How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Dr. Heidegger changes of the course of the story to realize he is content with the process of aging. In the beginning, he sees what the Fountain of Youth does to the flower from his lost love, and has hope that the water will improve life. As the experiment clarifies the true tendencies of human nature, he can come to the conclusion that the Fountain of Youth may eliminate some of the benefits of age by returning someone back to youth.
 * <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;">**Simile:** “ 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;">**Metaphor:** “ I must be content to bear the stigma of a fiction-monger.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Personification:** pg.161, par.3 "... flower..reviving from a deatlike slumber..." Flowers are not human, and do not awake from sleeping. B using personification, the idea of the flower openeing up as if new from years of having long died is created,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Symbol:** The rose represents the rose Dr. Heidegger was suppose to wear on his wedding day

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** Dr. Heidegger invited his old friend’s over which caused the whole story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Irony:** It’s ironic that the bride died on her wedding day. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Imagery:** When they think that they have become young again, but then one of them sees themselves in the mirrior and they are old.

<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**: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">The title, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" gives little insight into the theme of youth vs. aging in this story. The title allows the reader to know that the story will probably be about an experiment, but what kind is not specified. As one reads, one finds out that Dr. Heidegger, the protagonist, conducts an experiment on four elderly people to see how water from the Fountain of Youh will affect them. This experiment is the link between the generic title and a very specific theme.

<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">The purpose of this experiment was to see if the knowledge gained from old age would remain when the old became young again. If given a second chance at youth, would his old friends use their knowledge to correct their erred ways or fall back to human nature and make the same errors again. Dr. Heidegger already knew that the waters from the Fountain of Youth would make something or someone return to prior youth, as he demonstrated with the rose. In his experiment, he wanted to see the result of the waters on the lessons his friends had learned from their mistakes in youth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Questions: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">1. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">According to Dr. Heidegger, what is the purpose of this experiment? // **

<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Dr. Heidegger's friends are all very old, and all of the men were have rumoured to have been lovers of Widow Wycherly. The friends' best time of their lives was when they were young. When Dr. Heidegger offers the idea of returning to youth, they are excited for the prospect of returning to the high point in their lives. When they drink the water, they act as if they were those young, careless people and assume their old professions and lifestyles while still within Dr. Heidegger's home. Through these actions, one can see that all of them have their longing for youth in common as well.
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">2. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What do Dr. Heidegger's friends have in common? How does each of them behave during the experiment? // **

<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">As Dr. Heidegger sees the outcome of his experiment unfold, he realizes that he would rather not give up the knowledge he has attained with age than have the appearance, mentality, and lack of knowledge that comes with being young. Dr. Heidegger's friends only see the physical side of the experiment, and would prefer to remain looking young forever and not have many of their experiences that gave them knowledge than be wise and old.
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">3. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Why would Dr. Heidegger not stoop to bathe his lips in the Fountain of Youth? Do his friends feel the same way? // **

<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">The narrator of the story is likely someone who would have been close to Dr. Heidegger, though we never actually meet this character. The narrator probably knows many of the details of the story from what Dr. Heidegger might have told him/her or from the findings of written pieces, such as a journal, that Dr. Heidegger wrote about the account in. This unknown narrator is mostly certain of his facts, but was not actually present when the experiment occured, and therefore cannot be completely sure of specific facts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">4. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Who is the narrator of the story? Though he is not a participant in the experiment, the narrator relates all the details. How does he know what happened to the doctor and his friends? How certain of his facts is the narrator? // **

<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">The author brings up many different aspects of the issue of youth and aging in this story. One learns that, in the author's point of view, many mistakes are made in youth and as a result, one can learn from these mistakes to improve themselves. Our authour also concludes that with age comes knowledge and becoming old is an important in our lifetime. I agree with these views. The other key point that is brought up is that some people will not learn from their mistakes. Dr. Heidegger's friends don't choose to use knowledge from past experiences to change themselves, and this will occur for some of us.
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">5. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What points are made about youth and aging in the story? Do you agree with the views of the story? // **

<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Though at first thought the idea of an anti-aging vaccine seems desirable, in my opinion, there would be too many negatives in this situation to make it desirable to me. If one were to live 800 years, think of all the consequences of going against nature. For example, anyone who had not had the vaccine would die before you, leaving you alone in a world of strangers. This vaccine may also not restore one's youthful appearance. What might one look like with the effects of 800 years of aging without death? A vaccine might also fall into the wrong hands, and be handled in terms of money rather than to benefit society. If many people chose to get vaccinated with against aging, think of the over-population in the world. With over-population would also come many issues such as disease, elimination of resources, and war among others. None of these outcomes would be desirable to me. I would want to live my life knowing I had lived it the way it was supposed to be and not the way science would have manipulated it to be.
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">7. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Some scientists hope to develop a vaccine against aging. They speculate that human beings could live approximately 800 years. Do you feel this is desirable? // **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Revised total: 25/25