Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Gothic Elements
Gothic literature was first introduced in the United States in the nineteenth century. During this time there was a war and people had quite a hectic life. The gothic elements of death, psychological issues, and fascination with the past are present in the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs and in the short stories “Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and in the short story “Black Cat” death is a gothic element which is used in both stories. In “Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator kills his wife. He hit his wife with an axe and “she fell dead upon the spot, …show more content…
Heidegger’s Experiment” both stories use the gothic element fascination with the past. In “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne the Dr. Heidegger has a drink from the mythical Fountain of Youth which can make older people young for a moment. The people loved being young again, “We are young! They cried”(Hawthorne 3). In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs the narrator goes to the old home for peculiar children and sees the people that were there in 1940 around the time his grandfather was there. It was very unique to be able to meet the people that were there many years ago, also the headmistress of the home “This was Miss Peregrine”(Riggs 146). There are several similarities in the two stories because in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” the people are able to feel and look young again while in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children the narrator is able to talk to the people that were at the home for peculiar children years ago. There is a difference in the way that they were in the past because one was able to change to the way that they looked years ago, when the other was able to talk to people that were at the home for peculiar children years ago when they looked the same way as they did at that time as well. The writer Nathaniel Hawthorne writes about the elements of fantasy in his stories which “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” is an example
In the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and in the short story “Black Cat” death is a gothic element which is used in both stories. In “Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator kills his wife. He hit his wife with an axe and “she fell dead upon the spot, …show more content…
Heidegger’s Experiment” both stories use the gothic element fascination with the past. In “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne the Dr. Heidegger has a drink from the mythical Fountain of Youth which can make older people young for a moment. The people loved being young again, “We are young! They cried”(Hawthorne 3). In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs the narrator goes to the old home for peculiar children and sees the people that were there in 1940 around the time his grandfather was there. It was very unique to be able to meet the people that were there many years ago, also the headmistress of the home “This was Miss Peregrine”(Riggs 146). There are several similarities in the two stories because in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” the people are able to feel and look young again while in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children the narrator is able to talk to the people that were at the home for peculiar children years ago. There is a difference in the way that they were in the past because one was able to change to the way that they looked years ago, when the other was able to talk to people that were at the home for peculiar children years ago when they looked the same way as they did at that time as well. The writer Nathaniel Hawthorne writes about the elements of fantasy in his stories which “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” is an example