In the movie Wit‚ English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately‚ she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts. At the age of 48‚ she is diagnosed with stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer. Dr. Kelekian wants her to take eight high-dose experimental chemotherapy
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automatic‚ inattentive salutation to Vivian‚ which is both humorous and distressing. There is a connection between Vivian Bearing and Jason Posner. Prepped for research and scholarship by Vivian herself (he took her class on the metaphysical poets) Jason possesses many of the same traits as Vivian. He is smart‚ ambitious‚ dedicated to the complexities of his medical research‚ and inept at human relations. Like Professor Bearing‚ who could be overbearing with her students‚ Jason prefers research to
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Vivian Bearing: A Tragic Heroine that Triumph Margaret Edison’s play Wit is about Vivian Bearing‚ a professor of seventeenth century poetry‚ specializing in John Donne. She is a strong willed intellectual being treated for ovarian cancer. Vivian lives a very secluded life and avoids human emotional contact. Just like any tragic hero‚ Vivian has flaws that prevent her from human kindness‚ which leads to her downfall. Her treatment of cancer causes her to realize that she needs emotional connection
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is this made evident in the texts you have studied? Connections between John Donne’s Selective Poems and Margaret Edson’s play Wit to a great extent enrich the audiences understanding of each text and the themes of death and love. When these texts are studied together it is evident through continual intertextual reference that Donne has heavily influenced the play Wit. Although the texts differ contextually‚ with Donne’s 17th Century poetry and Edson’s 20th Century script writing‚ their contextual
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the play “Wit” by Margaret Edson‚ the nurse Susie Monahan deals with a number of issues pertaining to nursing. The purpose of this paper is to discuss three of these issues. Nursing image‚ Nurse and doctor relationships‚ and the therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient. We first meet Susie Monahan the primary nurse of Vivian Bearing the main character who is diagnosed with Stage IV cancer on page 16 of the play. She is fully involved in her patient’s care as well as helping her prepare
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Wit: An Analysis Abstract Wit is a movie about a woman dying of cancer. It is a powerful drama that chronicles the last few months of her life. The recurring theme throughout the movie is the nurses’ role as the compassionate‚ caring individual who humanizes the main character. The nurse seems to be everywhere and able to do just about everything that is needed. The nurses’ sole purpose in this film is to promote healing‚ preserve dignity and respect the patient as a whole person. The nursing
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3/27/13 Vivian Leigh There have been hundreds of thousand world renowned actors and actresses from all over the world. Many of which have won numerous awards and have made quite a name for themselves. Often times actors and actresses start from the very bottom‚ even from childhood working hard to get where they are or once were. This is much like actress Vivian Leigh. She had a hardworking childhood‚ and worked her way up the food chain to earn what is now considered a household name. “Born on
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Today is a special day Modern people are always pursuing something special. When we go to buy a gift‚ we make great effort in looking for a special one. When we chew the cud of our past‚ we try to figure out a special person for us. When we have a topic to work on‚ we have to think up a special day like what I am doing now. It seems we are always lack of special things and never do we get tired of seeking it. However‚ the most theatrical thing is that we are losing the thing what we have been
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people fear what may come and of course the unknown. When faced with dying‚ many different emotions can come about that you would have never thought about before you had to face dying. Many people go through the different stages of death such as denial or anger for example. Even the smartest and most intellectual people can misunderstand death and what it means to die well or what it means to die with dignity. I like it best the way Dr. Ira Byock‚ looks at dying with dignity and the need for care
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WIT The film “Wit” shed light on events that sadly do occur in a hospital setting. Doctors‚ nurses‚ and other staff members in the midst of work‚ forget that their patients are human. In the beginning of the film‚ Vivian Bearing‚ a professor is diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancers which are metastasizing. (Later in the film Vivian admits she had not gone to the doctor in five years‚ that is contributory negligence on her part.) Her doctor‚ Dr. Kalekian‚ very coldly tells informs her of her
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