friends and contemporaries to test his waters of the "fountain of

youth." As the doctor himself sits by to enjoy the show, each of his

four aged friends eagerly quaffs more and more of the magic potion,

each draught further carrying them backwards into their shared youth.

Having grown young, smooth-skinned and agile again, the three men begin

to fight for the favors of the fourth compatriot now restored to her

former beauty. In the heat of the fracas, they begin to grow tired and

within minutes the effect of the "waters" has worn away. The

participants in the brief respite from old age are devastated by the

transience of the experience. Despite Heidegger's warning that he has

learned to appreciate the advantage of age by watching the four of them

make themselves fools, they learned no such lesson and resolve to make

a pilgrimage to Florida to seek the Fountain.

A devoted scientist, in a brief step from his laboratory pursuits,

marries a beautiful woman with a single physical flaw: a birthmark on

her face. Aylmer becomes obsessed with the imperfection and needs to

realist, as opposed to a romancer. In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

disturbing birthmark on her face. In "The Birthmark" Hawthorne writes

Hawthorne writes about an actual event in history, Ponce de Leon's

"right" thing to do. In the case of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" the

themes. Also, the symbols in the story have like meanings. In both

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" and "The Birthmark", he also used symbols

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