Next Section Quotes Previous Section Glossary How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous 'Wit Themes'. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. We see how his bedside manner has very little tact, and in a classless action at the end of the play we watch as he attempts to resuscitate Vivian when she is a DNR as to him she is 'research.' Update this section! He is set out to be a world-class researcher, not to save patients. Jason represents the primary antagonist that sparks this theme. Furthermore, the death of Vivian Bearing in the play Wit by Margaret Edson plays a role by teaching Vivian how to use compassion. Harvey Kelekian, and Jason Posner, is morally viewed characters because of their discussions with the patient. Thus, these moments in her life become the dramatization of one's life's work and the reality of death bearing down and scrutinizing the life she has lived, and sacrificed for. In the play Wit by Margaret Edson, the relationships between the doctors are in need of examination. We are told by her at the beginning of the play that she knows she will die by the time the curtain closes. Vivian's story is about the final days of her life. Kelekian is also a man who has dedicated his life to the study of oncology, and we see the connection in their relationship as they enjoy the effort that they have put in in order to have gained such excellence in their fields. We are subtly given the details as to her sacrifice when she is asked her personal history, she has never married, never had children and has no living relatives that are close enough to her to visit. In the play Wit, by Margaret Edson, the reader is challenged with the complex ideas of character development following the imminent shadow of death.

She has become the foremost scholar on his work. Bearing has given her life to researching the Holy Sonnets of Donne. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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