Dr. Wit Character Analysis

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In Margaret Edson’s play W;t protagonist Dr. Vivian Bearing can be seen making a noticeable change in attitude that seems to give her peace in her final days of life, showing the importance of dying in peace mentally and physically. On page 71 of the play, when Dr. Kelekian asks Dr. bearing if she is in pain she responds by saying “Yes, I’m in goddamn pain. (Furious)”(71) and then proceeds to describe everything that is wrong with her from her “fever of 101 spiking to 104”(71) to her cancer eating away at her “goddamn bones”(71). This shows a major change in her emotions as she has now become quite aggressive with the use of a furious tone and how she swears screaming “goddamn” and yells at the doctors about how much pain she is in. This is

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