Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment: Aging & Youth
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment,” the themes of aging, youth, mortality, and the nature of human beings receive exploration through a peculiar scientific endeavor. The elderly characters, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherly, are the subjects of Doctor Heidegger’s experiment. This experiment employs water from the Fountain of Youth. Doctor Heidegger … Read more