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    Wit by Margaret Edson

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    Wit Every student has at some point in his or her educational career had a teacher that seemed completely unreasonable and immune to any sympathy towards the student. In the play Wit by Margaret Edson the main character is Dr. Vivian Bearing who is an esteemed professor of early 17th century poetry and fits the bill of the hard-nosed stubborn professor. This character is diagnosed with cancer and the play is about her treatments and battle with the cancer that ultimately at the end of the play

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    In the study of literature‚ an understanding of how language creates meaning is essential. One way that writers heighten or create meaning is through the use of literary allusions. In the play Wit‚ by Margaret Edson‚ a sustained allusion to the Holy Sonnets of John Donne enhances the work’s meaning when it is personified through the depiction of the life and death of Vivian Bearing. Though Vivian finally reaches a deeper understanding of humanity‚ she does so at great expense. To make her spiritual

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    Wit” was written in 1955 by playwright Margaret EdsonWit is also a one - act play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Drama. Edson engages readers of the play and audience members in many ways throughout the life of Dr.Vivian that include‚ Dr.Vivian’s experiences‚ from being a professor of the seventeenth-century poetry‚ to a victim of terminal ovarian cancer‚ and death. Wit begins with Dr. Vivian talking to the audience this is the first way Edson has the characters from the play engage

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    A 1991 play‚ Wit written by Margaret Edson explore a women’s life‚ Vivian Bearing‚ is suffering from the final stage of ovarian cancer and being treated with a full dose chemotherapy experiment for eight months. She finds out she has cancer and has to deal with it all by herself with no family members and not many friends. Vivian is a literature professor of seventeenth century poetry and also specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. (Edson pg. 5) She understood her life in an analytical security

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    Wit Life altering experiences has the power to change people. In the play “Wit” by Margaret Edson‚ Vivian began to value kindness. While on her death bed‚ she realized the of importance human interaction. The overall theme is the significance of humanity. Edson’s use of flashbacks emphasizes Vivian’s transformation from a researched based individual to someone who values humanity. The first flashback emphasizes how controlling and arrogant Vivian was at the beginning of the play. During her

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    Wit and Donne

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    what extent 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

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    Wit, the Play

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    In 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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    Mark Edson Essay

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    Mark Edson began serving the citizens of Arapahoe County‚ Colorado as a Police Officer in 1994. During Mark’s 21 years of police service‚ he has served as a Community Resource Officer‚ a Crime Prevention Officer‚ SWAT Negotiator‚ Patrol Supervisor and is currently a permanently assigned School Resource Officer with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office in Centennial‚ CO. Mark holds certifications in Community Policing‚ Problem Oriented Policing‚ CPTED‚ Crime Prevention‚ IPMBA‚ Negotiations‚ Leadership

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    The University Wits

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    The University Wits The University Wits were a group of late 16th century English playwrights and secular writers who were educated at the Oxford and Cambridge. Prominent members of this group were Christopher Marlowe‚ Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge‚ and John Lily‚ Thomas Lodge and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is sometimes considered as one of the University Wits but he did not read in any university. Nevertheless‚ Kyd’s plays show close resemblance to those of others members

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    Wit. Character Purpose

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    In “Wit” all of the main characters serve very specific purposes to the story. Dr. Kelekian‚ Dr. Jason Poser‚ Susie‚ and even Vivian herself all have distinct purposes in the play. Each character has a scene that seems dedicated to reveal their purpose in Vivian’s ordeal. Vivian’s key scene comes when she speaks with her old mentor and realizes what she’s been lacking in her life. First‚ is Dr. Harvey Kelekian‚ his purpose is shown in the very first scene‚ while giving Vivian her diagnosis.

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