Dr. Heidegger's Experiment vs. Death Becomes Her
...pes to give them a second chance. He ends up learning in the end that people don’t seem to learn from their mistakes. He learns this lesson because the four guests end up preforming their old antics that led them to destroy their youth in the first place. Death Becomes Her focuses mainly on the characteristics of the widow from Hawthorne’s story. This is evident through the protagonists of Death Becomes Her, Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp, very vain women whom both have been sinful and selfish in their youth. However, the other three guests are vaguely represented by the two women and the third protagonist of the movie, Dr. Ernest Menville. It is unclear whom represents Dr. Heidegger in the movie. Lisle Von Rhoman of Death Becomes Her gives the potion to Helen and Madeline, like Dr. ...