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 …showed first 75 words of 538 total…

…showed last 75 words of 538 total…poorly tested concoction to try to get rid of it but it ended up killing her instead. In “Dr. Heidiger’s Experiment”, the doctor tried to get rid of his loves mental illness and accidentally killed her on the eve of their wedding. 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.