Wit Macbeth Character Analysis

role in her ultimate fall into dementia.  By being forced to be her own company,

It is during her final days that she realizes she does need people who care, as well as people who are willing to be around and give her companionship. Whilst Vivian is in her room, talking with her doctor, Jason, she “wishes the young doctor would take more interest in personal contact” (Edson 554). Although just before this line in the play, she describes her state as a simpering victim, Vivian is acutely aware of the fact she wants human companionship. Up until this point Vivian had pushed away all contact, keeping conversations short and only saying what was absolutely necessary. However, now she is wishing that the doctor would stay and keep her company in her final days and moments. The desire she has for human companionship is profound when towards the end of the play she is once again in her hospital, “it was late at night, the graveyard shift. Susie was on. I could hear her in the hall. I wanted her to come see me” (Edson 557). While earlier she was just wishing the person who was already there would stay a tad longer, she had now escalated to the point that she was actively wanting someone to come see her. Vivian did not want to be fully alone, so much so that she proceeded to cause a commotion just so she would have someone to talk to her in her sleepless state. While during her life, Vivan may have wanted people around her and to respect her but she had all the pride in

P. 686- The nurse’s personality is cheerful. Nurse has been through alot with the death of her daughter and husband. She seems to lot a lot more of Juliet and acts like a mom to her too.

In Margaret Edson’s play, W;t, tells the story of Vivian’s experience with her cancer treatment. Through her treatment, Vivian recognizes her humanity and her lack of understanding life and death. By recognizing that being incredibly smart was not the answer to everything, Vivian looks back on her life and is able to reflect on her character. Edson’s use of aside, flashback, exposition, foreshadow, irony and foil allows Vivian to explore different themes. Through the use of these dramatic devices, Edson is able to convey themes of language, death and humanity.

Nurse Susie and Vivian used to be quite different from each other. Nurse Susie was a kind, compassionate person who had the best interest for her patients. Vivian was not like that at all towards the beginning of the play, but is starting to find herself like that towards the end of the play.

Vanessa, still naive, consciously resists the “upright” values of her family and believes she has control of her own identity therefore she, purposely attempts in many early parts of the story, to show ways of opposing her entire family. “I was prepared, for the question was the same each week. I rarely listened in Sunday school, finding

The play W;t by Margaret Edson is an account of a powerful and intelligent woman named Vivian Bearing battling a tragic disease. Vivian has been diagnosed with stage-four metastic ovarian cancer. Her treatment is a long and arduous process that takes place at the University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her primary doctor, Dr. Harvey Kelekian, and his assistant, Dr. Jason Posner, are conducting an experiment on her. They are using new treatment on her to evolve their research. Literary terms are employed throughout the play for the audience to sympathize with Vivian’s journey of suffering, loneliness, and introspection. Vivian takes the audience on an odyssey, allowing them to experience her battle with life and death.

Despite the discussed pre-cancer life that Vivian lives, she later relates with numerous people in the hospital who make her appreciate the negativity in overemphasis of intelligence over emotional and social growth. Before her death, she accepts the fact that she has been living a negative life and makes efforts to redeem herself from this sort of life. She was rude and arrogant to her students and initially at the hospital, she enjoys giving her doctorate title, and she does not relate well with doctors and

Macbeth’s character has developed significantly up to the second act. We are first introduced to Macbeth character in a way that we view him as powerful and Nobel. We get this idea from the quote “oh valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” which is what he is described as by Duncan, who at the time is the king. From this quote Macbeth is portrayed as a loyal and heroic figure who has done much for many, however as we know this was not a smart move for Duncan to make as it makes him come across and weak and seems like Duncan should be giving Macbeth a higher title, which is what the witches had told him before. In addition, this idea of the king complementing Macbeth about all the good that he has done seems to trigger the belief that Macbeth has the ability to be king, even in the eyes of Duncan who is so ecstatic what he has done for the county.

In the play “Macbeth” the author furthers the ideas of ambition, manhood and violence throughout the play using a gender lens, mainly for masculinity in men. In the play “Macbeth” ambition plays a big role in the man characters life; Macbeth. In Act 1 scene 3, lines 125-129, “And oftentimes, to win us to our harm; The instruments of darkness tell us truth.” (Shakespeare 1.3.125-129). This quote stated by Banquo foreshadows Macbeth further into the play. Macbeth ends up killing King Duncan because he wants to be in power over the kingdom. When Banquo questions Macbeth about the killing of King Duncan, Macbeth’s ambition to kill Banquo skyrocketed. Macbeth didn’t want anybody to think or know that he ended up killing King Duncan for power. This started a cycle of death for Macbeth’s ambition to kill to stay in power. This example of ambition from “Macbeth” has a very similar motif from the movie called “The Mask You Live In”. In the movie, George Orwell states, “He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.” The idea of the mask he wear fits his face helps us further the reason for men’s ambitions. Men’s ambitions are driven by power and dominance over people and prized possessions. For men to be able to gain power, they need to prove how masculine they are to society. In doing so they are dehumanizing their biological thoughts and feelings and turning them into artificial ones in order to be seen more powerful or dominate to the public.

Susanna also has help from her companions, who are also patients at McLean. With the help of: Georgina, a pathological liar and Susanna’s roommate; Daisy, a sexually abused girl with an eating disorder; and Polly, a burn victim with mental wounds deeper than physical, they provide Susanna with a deeper perspective on what real problems are outside of her head. Daisy, Georgina, and Polly also provide Susanna with the kind of friendship Susanna needs to take on her destructive thinking. Of course her companions are not the only aids Susanna encounters while on her Hero’s Journey, she also wouldn’t be able to complete it without the help of a mentor. For Susanna that mentor is Valerie, a nurse at McLean, who steers Susanna on the right path to better herself and that isn’t afraid to tell Susanna the truth, [...] She said things like “Cut that out” and “You're a bore”. She said what she meant, just as we did” (Kaysen 84). Valerie mentors Susanna into the right path in order for her to leave McLean as a healthy

     Eventually Vivian realizes that the chemotherapy treatments have failed. She turns to Posner for comfort but he's unable to help. Late one night, she talks to Susie her nurse, about her fears about death. They share a Popsicle in a precious moment of deep intimacy. Susie carefully raises the subject of the options available should Vivian's heart stop, suggesting she may want to have Dr. Kelekian note her preference on her chart. Vivian chooses to be DNR (Do Not Resuscitate). Later, as Vivian lies in a near coma, Susie tenderly rubs lotion on her hands. Small acts of kindness characterize her caring. Which just shows how caring and important nurses really are in our hospital environment. At the end of the movie

With the experience of being ignored, betrayed, and deprived, she becomes more afraid of loss and danger, but longs even more to have something to hold dear and belong to. When she gets into the convent school she finds temporary safety, being sheltered from the dangerous and unpredictable "outside", but her stepfather eventually brings her out into the

Making poor choices and treating others with disrespect can affect you in the long run and can easily contribute to a downfall. Macbeth was fully aware of the choices he made with the inhumane torture and disrespect he had on the citizens of Scotland. Being a tragic hero is when one experiences an immense tragedy which leads to a downfall, but Macbeth never had a tragedy because his death originated from the choices he made and reactions he had while he had authority as king. Macbeth being selfish and only caring about himself creates an undeserving and improper image as king which brought chaos into the land of Scotland. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth does not fit the formula for a tragic hero because he is not a moral

Wit is a one-act play written by American playwright Margaret Edson, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play.