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A 3 page research paper/essay that examines Margaret Edson's Wit and Thom Jones' short story "I want to live," which are two narratives that address how death from disease is handled in modern Western society. The writer shows how the experience of dying from cancer affects the women in both stories, encompassing their concerns and their attempts to hang onto their humanity. The end of the paper presents an interpretation of John Donne's "Death be not proud" into modern English. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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society. In both narratives, a middle-age woman is dying of cancer. Both narratives largely concern the horror of cancer, the pain of chemo-therapy, the vomiting and all the indignities perpetuated
on the human body in the name of science. But also, both stories also address how this experience affects the women involved, their concerns and their attempts to hang onto
their humanity. Vivian Bearing is the protagonist of Edsons play. She is a middle-aged scholar who has devoted her life to the study of John Donnes seventeenth century metaphysical
poetry. Edsons play, in particular, demonstrates how well-meaning doctors turn a patient into a thing, an object for study, in their determined efforts to root out the cause of disease
and expand the field of knowledge. This point is exemplified near the end of the play when Vivians heart stops beating. Her young doctor begins to revive her, despite the
fact that her chart reads DNR (do not resuscitate). Susie, her nurse who has always seen Vivian as a patient and a fellow human being, intervenes and shouts at the
doctor "Shes DNR!" (Edson 82). Jason, the doctor, responds "Shes Research!" (Edson 82). However, Jason eventually comes to his senses and honored Vivians last request. Throughout the play,
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear that Vivians hard-lined, academic stance towards
Donnes poetry has robbed it of its spiritual meaning. Jason, who is also a former student of Vivians, comments that "Enzyme Kinetics (a course) was more poetic than Bearings class"
(Edson 77). In remembering scenes from her life, it is clear that Vivian has deep regrets She regrets putting so much emphasis on being hard and not enough on making
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