The Symbolism Of Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

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The story is about Dr. Heidegger and his four elderly friends. The doctor asks his four friends to help them in an experiment. His friends all lived their lives in vain ways.
They were people with much remorse. He explains the experiment with a flower he had saved many years ago (55 years). The vase had water that belonged to the fountain of youth that Juan Ponce de León himself had searched for years. The doctor places the dried and withered flower in the water and everyone can see the restoration of the flower. Everyone except Dr. Heidegger took the water. Everyone had a new opportunity to amend their mistakes and live their youth again. After everyone begins to make the same mistakes that take them to their past circumstances, they
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After that the four friends travel to look for the water of youth because reality was not enough.
Dr. Heidegger's experiment, the title is literal because Dr. Performs an experiment with his friends. Although it is a more a social or moral experiment. The result and the theme of the story based more on the symbolism of an elixir that only recreates the desire of four people who used to spend their old age with remorse, wanting to return time. When they have the opportunity to do so, they waste it on vanities and bad decisions. The theme is allegorical. The conflict is social, moral where the evil that the human being possesses,
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The teaching of history is that even with the opportunity to relapse, the human being will commit the same. History shows us that there is a day in the afternoon of the season or summer season. The place of the story is
Dr. Heidegger's house, he specifically brought them together in the study area. The atmosphere of history shows us a study full of dust, spider web on the walls, different objects such as cameras, shelves, human skeleton, a mirror and portraits. It becomes dimly lit and a bit spooky.
The characters are Dr. Heidegger, Wycherly's widow, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel
Killigrew and Mr. Gascoigne. Dr. Heidegger is a guy who is understood to be of legal age.
He is a Dr. And scientist with a dark past, where he has a history of dead people.
Mysterious and complex person. Expresses the death of his fiancee before getting married.
Also apparently it is not the first time he asks his friends to participate in an experiment for him. It can be seen that he is a wise and somewhat calculating person, since he basically knew what the result of the experiment would be. Widow Wycherly was beautiful in her youth and much coveted by men. In the past many men fought for her even the other

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