Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": Reality Or Illusion
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,
one of the central ideas of the story revolves around the idea of reality
versus illusion. Of course the overriding theme of the story dealt with
the ethical dilemma of changing old age into youth, still a major part of
how the stor ....
Middle of paper
.... to be. Heidegger places the rose in
the water so there could be proof of the mysterious water's power, but in
the same act of proving its power to his guests Hawthorne proves to us the
power of the water because when the rose regains life nobody was drunk or
had even attempted to drink the water. "The crushed and dried petals
stirred, and assumed a deepening tinge of crimson, as if the flower were
reviving from a death-like slumber;"(page 3) It is that clear cut, and
completely undeniable con ....
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