Dr+Heidegger's+Experiment



**Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:** Dr Heidegger's Experiment

**Point of View:** 3rd

**Protagonist:** Dr Heidegger

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

**Antagonist**: The water from the fountain of youth

**Describe the setting** Place: Dr. Heidegger's office, in The USA Time: Early morning, based around the 1830's. Mood: Eerie/Tense

**Type of Conflict:** Man vs. Self

**Describe the main conflict:** The conflict is man vs. self, because Dr. Heidehher's friends are torn between, not drinking the water, and drinking the water. They also have self pitty on themselve after the water wares off, that they are not beautiful anymore.

**Describe the Climax of the Story:** The climax of the story is when the water wheres off, and the four people return to their elderly state.

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** Dr, Heidegger, in the beginning, is curious, and hopeful, but after the water wheres off of his three friends, he is disappointed with the outcome, and has gone to being upset, that even with the opotunity to undo their mistakes, he found that they would do the same thigs all over again.

**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** The whole point of giving his friends the water was to prove a point, which is also the theme, when people are put into a position of power, or given something that has, or represents power, they become selfish.

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** When the friends see the power of the water, they become selfish, and forget about the conflict.

**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** When they turn back to normal, they again, become selfish and vow to find the fountain, and drink from it, morning, noon, and night.

__**Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):**__

**Simile:** "One limped across the floor like a gouty grandfather."

**Metaphor:** ..."as if the flower were reviving from a deathlike slumber."

**Personification:** **..."** and several ghastly faces had peeped forth from the mirror"

**Symbol:** The rose the he brings back to life, because it represent the love he had for Sylvia, for him to keep it for 55 years.

**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** When Dr. Heidegger warns his friends about making the same mistakes they did before, foreshadows that they will anyways.

**Irony:** That the people were so happy that they became young again, but then they started to make the same mistakes, and then the water wore off.

**Imagery:** "... The crushed and dried petals stirred...the slender stalk and twigs of foliage became green; and there was the rose of half a century, looking as fresh as when Sylvia Ward had first given it to her lover. It was scarcely full blown; for some of its delicate red leaves curled modestly around its moist bosom, within which two or three dewdrops were sparkling."

**Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.** The class theme, "Power", and the story, are related because of what I said about the title and the theme of the story.

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