Select an area of the website to search
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
All
Study Guides
Homework Help
Lesson Plans
Search this site
Go
Page Citation
Start an essay
icon-question
Ask a question
Join
Sign in
Study Guides
Homework Help
Teacher Resources
Start free trial
Sign In
Start an essay
Ask a question
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Start Free Trial
Summary
Themes
Questions & Answers
Characters
Analysis
Quotes
Start Free Trial
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Questions and Answers
What lesson or lessons do you think Hawthorne intended "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" to teach? What warning does the doctor give his guests?
In Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," why does Dr. Heidegger conduct this experiment with the Fountain of Youth in the first place?
What is revealed about the narrator in paragraph 6 of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," what was the moral of the story?
Which word best describes the narrator’s tone toward Dr. Heidegger’s visitors in the first paragraph?
What is the irony in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
Why does the narrator refer to the bust of Hippocrates?
Discuss how successfully Hawthorne, in "Dr. Heideggers's Experiment," creates suspense and drama that keep readers captivated.
Explain the relationship that the four guests in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” had with each other during their youth.
What figurative language is used in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," what is the climax of the story?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" what does the rose symbolise?
What is the atmosphere of Dr Heidegger's Experiment ? How is this atmosphere created?
What effect did Dr. Heidegger's water of youth have on his friends?
What is the conflict of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
What do the four guests decide to do at the end of the story?
What does Colonel Killigrew represent in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
What is the setting in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment?" Is the lab the setting?
What are three gothic elements in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
why wont the doctor participate in the expiriment? what evidence suggests that he has anticipated the outcome of his test?
What lesson or lessons does the story teach?
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is a dark comedy. Comment.
What was the Widow Wycherly's relationship to the other participants in the experiment?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", when Dr. Heidegger kisses the withered rose, he says, "I love it as well thus." What does he mean?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," what did Widow Wycherly loose or waste?
What is an example of a metaphor used in "Dr. Heidegger Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
What are the guests' reactions after drinking the first glass of water in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment".
what do the docotrs four old friends have in common? what is true of each one's life?
Describe Dr. Heidegger's study. What is unusual about his mirror?
How do the guests from "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" react to their physical transformations?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," what does the black folio suggest about the nature of his experiment?
The characters in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" are given a chance to go back and change mistakes they had made. If given the chance to go back in time and change something, are humans capable of doing so? If so, how unusual or difficult is it? Please be sure to give examples from real life.
In which room do the guests gather?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," what does Mr. Medbourne lose/waste?
Who were Dr. Heidegger's four friends?
How did Dr. Heidegger’s fiancée die?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," how is the small table described?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," what happens to the rose?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," what happens to the vase?
What happened to Dr. Heidegger's fiancee in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
Dr. Heidegger's experiment What can you learn from the story, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment that might be considered a fact of life ?
What does Colonel Killigrew from "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" lose or waste when he drinks the Fountain of Youth water to become young?
what begins to happen as the old people feel themselves growing young again? what catastrophe occurs? how does it occur?
What did Colonel Killigrew lose or waste in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Who is the girl in the portrait in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
I very need help with this, please help me Have you ever read the story "Dr.Heidegger's Experiment" if yes, please help me w/this questions :]1. what kind of book ("folio volume") was in the middle of Dr. H's study2.How is the small table described; what is on it3. When Dr.H returns to his guests carrying his black leather folio, what does that suggest about the nature of his experiment4.what does he tell them about the rose; what does he use it to demonstrate5. what is the experiment going to be6. what does Dr.H say to his guests before they drink; how might this be foreshadowing7. what is their reply; how might this be foreshadowing8.why,do you suppose, Dr.H claims to have "so well selected the subjects of my experiment"9.what happens when they drink--what do they soon cry out10.what changes occur to each of them--be specific 11. what does each of then start to think abouti knw this is a lot but i would be appreciate if u help me. thank you so much :]you can also contact me by this e-mail : ying_luv_u@hotmail.com
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," the narrator is deliberately unclear about whether the guests are actaully restored to youth. What do you think?
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," how old is the rose, and how does Dr. Heidegger transform it?
Before starting the experiment, what does Dr. Heidegger remind each of his guests?
What is the causality in the story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment?"