In 'The Minister's Black Veil" and in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Nathaniel Hawthorne focuses on theme and conveys these themes through his characters and their actions (characterization). Compare and contrast the themes that Hawthorne uses in both stories. Then, respond to whether or not these themes are connected in any manner. Make sure to respond in a well-written essay.
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Daniel Gamble
1/16/2015 01:51:03 am
Comparing Nathaniel Hawthorne Stories
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1/16/2015 01:54:09 am
The Minister’s Black Veil and Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment Compare and Contrast Essay
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Nicholas Powers
1/16/2015 01:54:18 am
Comparing the two stories together can easily be seen. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories usually have a suspicious and curious type of feeling to them. In both of the stories they both have a main situation that the stories are based about. One situation in Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is if the person who drinks the water, goes back to their youth. In the Ministers black veil there is a man who wears a black veil that everyone finds suspicious. And in Dr. Heidegger’s story everyone finds the water suspicious but actually wants it.
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raymond hale
1/16/2015 01:55:57 am
Nathaniel Hawthorne does a great job creating his stories; the way he puts characterization in his story is very well written. Themes are a big part in a lot of stories, like Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment and the minister’s black veil. There are some parts in both stories that are the same concept of the themes.
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Nicole Killinger
1/16/2015 01:56:16 am
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Noah Cannon
1/16/2015 01:58:16 am
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Jazmine Weiss
1/16/2015 01:58:37 am
Nathaniel Hawthorne has written many stories with a meaningful theme. By reading “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” many comparisons and differences have come about. The themes and symbolism have differed and agreed on certain conclusions.
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Marcus West
1/16/2015 02:01:07 am
Comparing and Contrasting Themes
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Nora
1/16/2015 02:01:52 am
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Reckyia Bracey
1/16/2015 02:02:00 am
Comparing and Contrasting
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kyle wychuyse
1/16/2015 02:02:53 am
Themes in the Stories by Hawthorne
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Shayna Suit
1/16/2015 02:03:12 am
In “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, shows the themes. The themes of both stories are each based on a symbol. The symbol of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” is the rose, and the theme of “The Minister’s Black Veil” is the black veil. While the meanings of the symbols are different, they are similar in the way that the themes are both symbols.
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Cody Wallace
1/16/2015 02:03:58 am
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment and The Ministers Black Veil have many of the same aspects. They both are written be the same authors so they do have many similarities and some differences, due to the fact that when written he had similar and different thoughts.
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Tara Stewart
1/16/2015 02:04:11 am
Comparing and contrasting
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Kanai Dozier
1/16/2015 02:04:36 am
Comparing and Contrasting Hawthorne
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Jacob Sapienza
1/16/2015 02:04:44 am
In the minsters black veil and in Dr. Heidegger's Experiment they both are trying to explain how you can’t hide from things in your life there will be no fountain of youth or a mask that will hide your emotions from the rest of the world. In the ministers black veil Mr. Hooper wears a black veil that hides his face. The black veil represents that he is mourning over a close ones death, In Doctor Heidegger’s experiment he invite’s 3 of his old friends over and explains to them that he’s has found the fountain of youth and that he has water from it that they can drink and be young again but the catch is that the water wont last very long as one of the Dr’s friends looks in the mirror they notice that they are young again but they are greedy and want more because they are not young enough.
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Trenton Higgins
1/16/2015 02:04:57 am
Compare and Contrast Hawthorne’s Writing
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Brooklynn Schmanski
1/16/2015 02:05:11 am
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a writer in the early to mid-17th century. He had hidden symbols in his stories, and they all had a deeper meaning. He had a creative mind, and had a clever way with words. In his stories “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, the two themes of the stories have to do with the human society, and how they react to certain things. Also, in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, it is shown that one cannot retain their wisdom if becoming young again. In the other, it is shown that people will lie about their sins or thoughts, to keep their reputation pure.
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kim shults
1/16/2015 02:05:24 am
In both the “black veil” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” they have a theme of death and age. They are similar in ways but different in others. They are both in a writing style that is hard to comprehend. The vocabulary is not what people are used to hear and reading. The settings in both are gloomy. The main characters are unique to their stories.
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Chris Henckel
1/16/2015 02:05:43 am
Themes in Hawthorne’s Writing
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Hunter Thayer
1/16/2015 02:05:52 am
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote many pieces from The Scarlet Letter to the Twice Told Tales. His writing style in his stories were different in a lot of ways, but they were also very similar in a lot of ways. There are a lot of similarities in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and “The Ministers Black Veil” too. Some in which are theme, plot, symbolism, climax, narrator. Some of the most obvious similarities in the two stories are the narration, theme, and the symbolic features.
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Chad manion
1/16/2015 02:05:59 am
In “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” both show lessons that are very important. In “The Minister’s Black Veil” the priest teaches that everyone has a mask. Everyone hides things and no one wants to tell, but we sometimes remove that mask (rarely) to special people on certain occasions. In “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” the lesson learned is that you can’t be young forever. When you’re old you don’t look as the same if you were 25 or 45; you don’t even act the same. Both these stories show us what’s important and what’s not.
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Jinx
1/16/2015 02:06:05 am
The themes he uses in both ‘The Ministers Black Veil’ and ‘Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment’ is called Romanticism. He uses a dark and creepy kind of theme in his stories such as the ones I mentioned before.
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justin sochko
1/16/2015 02:06:17 am
Comparing and Contrasting: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Jade Harrison
1/16/2015 02:06:18 am
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Lauren Barczak
1/16/2015 02:06:25 am
Nathaniel Hawthorne has written many stories and each of his stories always had a theme to it. “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” are just two of Hawthorne’s successful stories. In the two there are many similar themes in the story and there are many different ones. In the two stories Hawthorne has an object that symbolizes something to the main character in the story. In “The Minister’s Black Veil” the object was a black veil and in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” it was as simple as a rose. The story behind the two are complete different but teaches the reader a lesson.
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Jaylon Wells
1/16/2015 02:06:42 am
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Tony Colucci
1/16/2015 02:47:48 am
Nathaniel Hawthorne is absolutely brilliant in his writing for being so very clever in his messages explained in the stories Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment and The Minister’s Black Veil. Both have an eerily dark tone to them and an unsubtle mood from beginning to end. Characters fit well with the tales too, and their actions have an equal effect as the theme.
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Tristin Vezzetti
1/16/2015 03:00:45 am
Comparing and Contrasting the Minister’s Black Veil and Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment. Both of these stories are both very similar and very different in many ways.
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Patricia Camarata
1/16/2015 03:05:57 am
Nathaniel Hawthorne is a great writer in my eyes because he really knows how to understand what a reader really wants to read. Now when you are comparing the two stories together you can easily recognize what story is what because, in the “Ministers Black Vail” was more suspenseful and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” was more about sins and morals. Not so much that it would make you wonder what’s going to happen you would kind of already know and understand what happens. When you read these two stories you can’t really say that they are alike just because they are by the same person.
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Celina Trucano
1/16/2015 03:08:55 am
Nathaniel Hawthorn is a great writer because he does focuses on certain themes and shows them through characterization. Both “The Ministers Black Veil” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” are very similar, but they are also very different. The use of characterization in both stories supports the theme.
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Aaron Ingram
1/20/2015 01:55:58 am
Hawthrone focuses on the theme of sins in the ministers of the black veil. he puts the mask on as a symbol representing the fact that everyone has a sin they hide from everyone and by them looking at the veil, they saw a bit of theirselves and were ashamed. that's why they acted the way they did. this is similar to the other story because it shows how people react to different things that take place in life, showing either the right way or the wrong way. nevertheless, they both still show a moral lesson on their outlook on society.
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