Analyze the characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”

Activity

Synthesize
the stories, analysis, and videos in this lesson as you answer the following
questions. 

Part A (short
paragraph)

Analyze
the characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and list their traits. Cite
evidence from the story to support your analysis.

Part B (2 paragraphs)

Identify two central themes in “Dr Heidegger’s
Experiment” and explain how Hawthorne develops these themes. Cite
textual evidence from the story to support your answer.

Part C (short paragraph)

You’ve learned that an allegory is a fictional narrative in which
the literal story has another parallel, deeper meaning. Read the following
excerpt from Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown.”
Analyze and explain the allegory used in the story.

And
there they stood, the only pair, as it seemed, who were yet hesitating on the
verge of wickedness in this dark world. A basin was hollowed, naturally,
in the rock. Did it contain water, reddened by the lurid light? or
was it blood? or, perchance, a liquid flame? Herein did the shape of
evil dip his hand and prepare to lay the mark of baptism upon their foreheads,
that they might be partakers of the mystery of sin, more conscious of the
secret guilt of others, both in deed and thought, than they could now be of their
own. The husband cast one look at his pale wife, and Faith at
him. What polluted wretches would the next glance show them to each other,
shuddering alike at what they disclosed and what they saw!

“Faith! Faith!”
cried the husband, “look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one.”

Whether
Faith obeyed he knew not. Hardly had he spoken when he found himself amid
calm night and solitude, listening to a roar of the wind which died heavily
away through the forest. He staggered against the rock, and felt it chill
and damp; while a hanging twig, that had been all on fire, besprinkled his
cheek with the coldest dew.

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