Aggressive and Witty

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. …

…a hope that the experimental chemotherapy will work, Vivian looks at life in a different way. She learns to live life to the fullest one must learn to appreciate the simple things. When the pain from the treatment got to be unbearable her body give out. In the very last scene she drops her gown and goes toward the bright light, but is Death the way Donne portrayed it to be in his “Holy Sonnets?”