The experiment is Brecht's short story starring the philosopher Bacon and is a very appropriate title for a philosopher with a scientific vocation and a systematic attitude of observation of natural phenomena. In fact, Brecht presents Bacon as a scholar of natural sciences and a researcher concerned with practical issues in the field, who seeks to dominate natural forces and invent useful things. Simultaneously, it shows Bacon's darker side, linked to a series of cruel, arbitrary, and unjust decisions he made while serving as Lord Chancellor, which led him to imprisonment, albeit for a short time. Thus, Brecht completes the portrait of a two-faced Bacon, known worldwide for being a humanist and philosopher, and also for being a vengeful and unscrupulous criminal.