'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment': Can We Get More Powerful?

The quest for power can lead to unimaginable beliefs. This is shown in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne when his guests say, “he rattled forth full-throated sentences about patriotism, national glory, and the people’s right;” This shows that when people get a chance all they do is look for power and ways to get more powerful and more money. Another example would be when Hawthorne says, “As for the Widow Wycherly, she stood before the mirror curtseying and simpering to her own image.” When people get something that makes them happy and excited, all they do is just ask for more. Lastly, Hawthorne said, “Medbourne was involved in a calculation of dollars and cents, with which was strangely intermingled a project for supplying the East Indies with ice, by harnessing a team of whales to the polar icebergs.” Medbourne was already thinking about

Hawthorne has showed us many examples of this and one of them are, “Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures.” Hawthorne showed that all type of people can make mistakes in life and that everyone does it in their daily life. Another example would be, “As for the Widow Wycherly, tradition tells us that she was a great beauty in her day; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion, on account of certain scandalous stories which had prejudiced the gentry.” (Hawthorne) She proves that sometimes when you make mistakes like ruining your name, you hide from that mistake until you can escape that thing you did wrong. Lastly, Hawthorne said, “Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, but had lost his all by a frantic speculation, and was now a little better than a mendicant.” This shows that even with a massive amount of wealth in the world, you can always be greedy and ask for more money and wealth and power, which can lead to you losing all of