Aggressive and Witty
Margaret Edson's play "W;t" tells a compelling story of Dr. Vivian Bearing who is the main character. She is a renowned professor of seventeenth-century poetry, specializing in the "Holy Sonnets" by John Donne. Ms. Bearing is diagnosed with deadly ovarian cancer that will eventually take her life. After she is diagnosed she approaches her illness aggressively as she approaches Donne, and she must now become the student instead of the teacher. She is determined to survive, but in the opening scene she says, "it is not my intention to give away the plot; I think I die at the end"(6). Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to the study of Donne: aggressive
She feels embarrassed and humiliated. The understanding of her illness, her treatment, and her life lead her to become the student instead of the teacher. She tries to understand everything about the cancer. This is a grueling eight-stage process that most people could not withstand, but Jason thinks that she is strong enough to go through all eight of the full doses of chemotherapy. Jason brings the same clinical approach to cancer that Dr. When the pain from the treatment got to be unbearable her body give out. In a hope that the experimental chemotherapy will work, Vivian looks at life in a different way. Bearing has become the student as she becomes a helpless patient and Jason the teacher as he becomes her doctor. Like Vivian, he pours all his passion into his work. She has agreed to undergo an experimental chemotherapy treatment to rid her body of cancer. After she learns that she will not live long she comes to terms with her condition and even finds it humorous.
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