All three stories, "Dr. Heideger's Experiment," "The Birthmark", and "Rappaccini's Daughter", have several things in common.
The first similarity being that they all involve a young and beautiful woman that in every story, ends up dieing an ironic death at the hand of her lover. In "The Birthmark", the woman drank a potion for her husband even though she knew it would kill her and all of this was a result of her husband trying to perfect her. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", the woman was born poisonous and killed what ever she touched. She fell in love and transformed her lover to be the same way. Her lover wasn't happy with this and gave her an antidote for the poison they were made from in hope of returning to normal. She knew full well it would kill them bu
Therefore, all three stories generally have the same themes and methods of foreshadowing. They also share the same plot of a woman dieing an ironic death by the hand of her lover.
An other thing all the stories have in common is that they all involve flowers that play an important role by foreshadowing. In "Dr. Heideger's Experiment", he puts a rose in the elixir of life to test it and it bloomed. When his companions drank and knocked the pitcher containing the elixir and the flower over, it shriveled up and died. Soon after, his friends returned to being old. In "The Birthmark", the scientist gave a flower his potion before his wife and a short while later it foreshadowed his wife's death by the potion when it dried up and died. In "Rappaccini's Daughter",
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