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Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment. Dr. Heidegger invites four old people (friends) to meet him (3 men, 1 woman—Colonel Killigrew, Widow Wycherly, Mr. Gascoigne, and Mr. Medbourne) They have not had great lives. All 3 men had dated the woman when they were younger and had fought over her.

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Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

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  1. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

  2. Dr. Heidegger invites four old people (friends) to meet him (3 men, 1 woman—Colonel Killigrew, Widow Wycherly, Mr. Gascoigne, and Mr. Medbourne) They have not had great lives. All 3 men had dated the woman when they were younger and had fought over her. • Dr. Heidegger wants them to participate in an experiment. • Dr. Heidegger’s study is a creepy, supernatural place.

  3. Dr. Heidegger has acquired water from the Fountain of Youth. He changes a dead rose back to living. He wants his friends to drink the water so that he can see if it works and study the changes. • He warns them not to repeat the errors of their youths.

  4. Their transformation is slow and all four beg for more, showing that they are actually greedy, vain, selfish people. • They begin to act young and act as they did when they were younger. • The men fight again over the woman.

  5. While they are fighting, they break the vase that hold the Fountain of Youth water. • The Fountain of Youth water does not last. First the rose dies, then the people grow old again.

  6. Dr. Heidegger learns that it’s not all that great to repeat your youth and that some never learn from their mistakes. • The four learn nothing—they immediately make plans to move to Florida and drink from the Fountain of Youth morning, noon, and night and stay young forever.

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