A Thought Experiment Through My Literary Past

February 6, 2017 Literary Analysis of “Dr Heidegger’s Experiment” In the short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a great deal of literary elements used to enhance the story. For example, imagery is used to draw the reader 's attention further into the story by having them see it happening in their head and allegory is used to pull the reader away from the story by referencing things that happened somewhere else. While these two literary elements are both used

and political turmoil led to a major revolution in thought. This was the period of Darwin and his theory of evolution, Karl Marx and Marxism, Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theory, and many others. These people had new, unique thought processes that rocked the ideologically cramped world of Victorian era thinking. This new wave of thought was called modernism, it completely broke from the mold of antiquated Victorian/ romantic era thought, and rippled outwards, influencing literature and many

There’s always a new theory, experiment, or work that can prove a new stance. With the progression of time, knowledge can sometimes be discarded. But what is knowledge? And what kind of factors can impact it which leads to it being discarded? Knowledge is information centered by a concept that conveys a message and can be acquired through learning or memory. Many different factors can have an effect on whether someone accepts information as knowledge or knowledgeable. The biggest impacts are biases

this? Is it that they were brought up as a child to think this way, or was it that as they got old they thought their lives had become worthless, therefore, they continued to not care? Similar themes are shown in the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in their individual works “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Devil and Tom Walker,” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment.” Unlike the Transcendentalists who saw the purity of an individual, Dark Romantics saw people as unrighteous

romantic”, and my viewing of the film adaptations were enough to keep me away from her novels. When I was asked to read Persuasion for a class, I was hesitant and unwilling to fully engage with the material. This prevented me from enjoying the book fully. I didn’t quite know what was holding me back from enjoying the book, but I knew that it was something more than my explicit biases against Austen. After a little reflection, I realized that my implicit biases were shaping my reading of Austen. My implicit

This confusion and revelation is best explained through the quote, "Morrison offers contradictory clues about Roberta and Twyla’s race that serve the purpose of confusing the reader and, in doing so, illuminating the reader’s own assumptions and prejudices about race" (Seresin Paragraph 3). Although we

mores and was hindered by the communist experiment. Thus, the Russian intelligentsia did not transform Soviet society along Marxist-Leninist thought because intellectual discovery inherently contradicts the Soviet ideology. Zubok’s claims the intelligentsia transformed Soviet society in light of political liberalization and cultural relaxation. However, Soviet society was transformed as Soviet citizens became increasingly disillusioned with the communist experiment. Out of the

particular scene take place (setting)? Explain the character’s thoughts, motives, and actions (i.e. What does the person mean?). Kathy, the main character, is speaking. This particular scene takes place in Kathy’s mind when she is in the hospital talking to a donor. Kathy is describing her old “school” to one of the donors when she realizes how depressing his life must have been and therefore he is trying to forget about his past memories and replace them for hers. Throughout the entire book,

desperate thirst of knowledge and desire for creation blocked out the visual horrors that were present around him; they went unnoticed. This time around however, he explains “I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands” (Shelly 119). Contrasting to his first experiment, the enthusiasm that there once was, is now shrouded by fear and sickness of his creation. Frankenstein now indicates negative perceptions towards experimentation and creation of life, mostly due to the

and imagination, but I never really got into it. My family never enforced reading for me as strictly as other kids parents did for them, but emphasized the concrete skills. This inevitably led me to be mainly interested in the hard skills verse the more abstract soft skills. Out of this reasoning, I decided not to read books of the type throughout elementary, middle, and high school. I didn’t hate them or anything. I just didn’t have them in my tunnel vision. So guess I should of read more non-fiction