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What is the tone of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" - Is Hawthorne's story scary or amusing? Make sure to have a brief passage from the text ready to explain your answer. Who is the narrator? 3. What ... does the narrator mean when he says he, "Must be content to bear the stigma of a fiction monger" - Is the narrator distancing himself from the disreputable characters? Why or why not? 4. Why does Dr. Heidegger invite his friends to his chamber? 5. What warning does the doctor give his guests? 6. The narrator is deliberately unclear about whether the guests are actually restored to youth. What do you think? Support your answer. 7. What do you think would have happened if the water had not spilled? 8. What do the four guests resolve to do at the end of the story? 9. The story could be read as an allegory, a story in which people, objects, and events represent abstract qualities. The four guests in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" are not realistic, fully developed characters. Instead, they seem more like a representation of ideas. Allegories are written not only to entertain but also to teach lessons or moral principles. Identify an abstract quality or idea that teach of the four guests in the story might represent 10. The following are objects in Dr. Heidegger's study. What do these objects represent? 11. Based on these objects, what assumptions can be made about Dr. Heidegger. (example: Is he a wise man, or is he foolish and crazy) Why? 12. What do you think was the reason for the experiment and what were his findings? 13. Why is the piece "dark" - What is it about the "evil" side of human nature that Hawthorne is exploring? 14. What does this say about people in general? [Show More]

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