Essay Archive - Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": Reality or Illusion
Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": Reality or Illusion
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,
one of the central ideas of the story revolves around the idea of reality
versus illusion. Of course the overriding theme of the story dealt with
the ethical dilemma of changing old age into youth, still a major part of
how the story was interpreted involved a personal decision on how you took
the story; as literal or figurative. The perception that appealed to me
the most was reading the text as literal, and concluding the experiment as
realit....
|