Analyzing Vivian's Character

Jackie is an elite distance runner when no one else in her family has this trait is because she has a different combination of gene versions. Evidence card D states "she ran sprints three days a week, but her sprint times were nit very good, and she never won any races." This evidence supports the claim 2 and refutes claim 1 because even though she did train, she was not very good. Based on the he evidence I could conclude that Jackie's running ability did not have to do with training. Another piece of evidence is on card B, it states that Lincoln has a gene version combination of A1 and A1 which points to the result of Jackie's mother having A1 is one of her gene versions. This is important bad use when you inherit genes from your

“I’m sick of this house” (75) exclaims 15 year old, revolutionary-minded Helen McBride. Living in a house with 11 other children was not the lifestyle she had in mind. Having her own beliefs suppressed by her mother was not what she wanted in life. Helen, feeling crowded and controlled, leaves her home and does not look back.

and when you’re in love with something, you generally don’t want to leave it. But in the end, after everyone thinks Vivian purposefully hurt herself and she isn’t sure if she did or not, she chooses the best thing to do is what needs to be done for herself, not others. She wanted to be the most Vivian she could

Wit starts off with Dr. Kelekian telling Vivian Bearing, Ph.D. professor, that she is diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic ovarian cancer. Dr. Kelekian tells Vivian that she must undergo 8 months of aggressive chemotherapy, where he fails to explain what are those treatments are exactly entailed to. Vivian agrees to do take the eight months of aggressive chemotherapy. Due to the amount of aggressive medication intake that she was taking, her body has started to weaken and none of the physicians cared about the best interest for her. Susie, the

She informs the audience that she’s been given a limited amount of time to tell her story, a fact which leads her to believe that she will most likely die before the end of the play. Before her hospitalization, she was Professor bearing, a teacher and scholar specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Vivian takes the audience to various scenes in the past and present that showed her achievements in Scholarship and shows what happens to her as she goes through Chemotherapy for 8 months. Over the course of the play the audience gets a chance to see Vivian’s treatment for her cancer. As she goes through the treatments she takes the audience back twenty years with an encounter with her graduate school professor E.M. Ashford, after which she decides that nothing will stop her from becoming a top scholar and that the area she chose to study will be the most challenging , the poetry of John Donne. She also recalls her life in the classroom where she was known as a demanding teacher of literature. As the chemotherapy weakens Vivian and the doctors seem to take less notice of her pain, she comes to rely on her nurse, Susie who sees her suffering and treats her with kindness. She helps Vivian decide on a “Do Not Resuscitate.” As she dies, having learned much about life, Vivian is at peace with her herself and her

Vivian’s physical suffering is caused by her illness, which slowly deteriorates her identity. In W;t, Vivian’s physical character is enhanced by her power through Language and it’s discourse. As time progresses, cancer slowly cause’s her to suffer physically, and therefore inverts her powerful identity. On page 25, Vivian’s body is clinically deconstructed, the

Vivian’s condescending nature is a characteristic that becomes amplified in her own flashbacks. This is shown through the quote, “So far so good, but they can only think for themselves only so long before the being to self-destruct… Lost it” this shows how Vivian hides behind her wit which is a parallel drawn from herself and Donne. It shows the audience how they both try to hide from death by using wit.

There was a time in my life where all I wanted to be was Ramona Flowers. I thought she was so cool in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World with her colored hair, her pithy remarks, and her success at attracting romantic partners (which is all I wanted as a twelve-year-old girl.) However, upon revisiting the concept of Ramona Flowers, I realized how annoying and awful the concept of her is. (Granted, I am basing this characterization of the movie and not the comics. I’m sure they are different characters.) The concept of Ramona Flowers is completely subservient to the male desires. She completely represents the pseudo-strong female who all the guys desperately want, but can’t have; however, in actuality, Ramona Flowers

This is portrayed in the scene in which Vivian goes back to her old college Professor, E.M. Ashford. Vivian’s fear is shown through the use of ellipsis’ as Vivian feels uncomfortable due to the fact that she can no longer hide behind words. Furthermore Vivian’s view on death is also conveyed in this scene as Vivian believes there is far more separating life and death than that of a comma, a breath, as said by E.M Ashford. Death, towards the end of the play, becomes an acceptance for Vivian as she finally embraces the true faith in which Donne had towards an afterlife and overcomes her salvation anxiety. Vivian begins to crave kindness and comfort when she never has before, this conveys Vivian’s change of heart. Through the quote ““It”: such a small word. In this case I think “it” signifies being alive” one can see that Vivian no longer feels the pull towards life as she did in the beginning of the play. The audience knows when Vivian is truly ready to die upon Vivian’s stage direction as she “attempts a grand summation” as if trying to conjure up her own ending. She then recites her original interpretation of John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” where only a breath separates life from death. Thus one can observe that through contextual connections that a greater understanding can be obtained in relation to the play Wit by Margaret Edson and the theme of death. Furthermore it is through these

Most of the time she apprises of her cleverness: “I am always smart! Am I not Mr. Worthing?”. Being the first line she said in the play states something of her representation and it represents immediately that she has a way of acting out overly confident. Additionally she has a demeanor way of saying things upright: “I know we are going to be great friends Additionally she has a demeanor way of saying things upright, so frequently, she has to decline her last words. Furthermore she had a presumptuous manner, especially towards whom she opposed, and she often had to decline her pas dialogue, since she was so straightforward.

The characters of the play consist of Mrs. Wright, John Wright, region lawyer George Henderson, Henry Peters the sheriff, neighboring rancher and witness Lewis Hale. This leaves the two principle heroes in the tale of Mrs. Subsides and Mrs. Sound, the individual spouses of Henry Peters and Lewis Hale. The murder puzzle happens in the void farmhouse of John Wright. The men assume responsibility for the examination and leave the ladies to get a couple of things for Mrs. Wright's accommodation. From the begin of the murder, riddle comes early works from the points of view of the guys not as much as equivalent demeanors towards ladies. Amid a standard examination, Mr. Hale` is disclosing his experience to the province lawyer and his thinking for

She uses the humor to keep her audience entertained and to make her speech one to remember. She creates a bond to the audience reminding them that she has been in their place and remembers what it was like. She continues to use humor like “Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but ... A win-win situation!” (Rowling). This is because she can relate to the graduates nerves of going into the real world. She shows them that even she has felt the same feelings.

Although Rita acknowledges that being smart is important, she shows that her change in the play is not just learning, but through her personality too. Her education helps her overcome her working class background and for her not to follow the rold of a traditonal woman in the 1970's. Education completely changes Rita and effects her life enormously. One of the greatest changes we see in Rita is the language she uses as the play progresses.

In the first act, Libby is a young woman who loves to sing moved to a horse farm in Western Lorton after realizing that her home life was destroying the person she wants to be. Libby’s parents are extremely strict and conservative, and hoped for their daughter to be a doctor. But Libby has always dance to the beat of her own drum never fitting into the normal standards of her family life. At a young age, she decided that training horses and sing in a band was her destiny. Although she doesn’t have much in common with her family and they don’t accept her life choices, she has managed to find two best friends Victoria and Elizabeth. Libby’s best friends are complete opposites of her but they accept her and push her to be herself inside and out.

The limerick of a bygone era that might still exist in the hallways of elementary schoolers originally goes, “Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, etc.” was coined by the Disney Company for 1933’s Three Little Pigs cartoon. To include the jingle in the 1966 film adaptation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf would have been something of copyright infringement based on the proprietary holding of the melody, so the melody is changed to another with “Here we go around the mulberry bush.” Trivial, though it seems it is in these curious fault lines in the tectonic world of the play that can reveal meaning. It’s a play on words, an inside joke held by characters in the know, in the know of personal history, the original limerick and the comedic play to include Virginia. At its most base it is something meant to sound like something but is not. A synecdoche done over twofold in this instance for the sake of the inside joke, and the sake of Disney, oddly enough. One might go even deeper, as one does, into the characters that sing the song and relate the meaning to one that is more personal, more fervid if disturbed. Disruption runs a heady gambit throughout this play come to film, encompassing an inebriated odyssey into a tempestuous marriage fortified with illusion.