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File Size: 313 KB
Print Length: 99 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (May 20, 2014)
Publication Date: May 20, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00JOCWAOY
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4.5 starsThis is Margaret Edson's first and only play. W;T won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999. Ms. Edson earned a graduate degree in English from Georgetown and worked on the cancer and AIDS wings of a research hospital. Since the early 90's, she has been an elementary and/or middle school teacher in Atlanta, GA.At the start of the play, we are greeted by Vivian Bearing, a 50 year old professor of 17th century poetry and an expert on John Donne. She speaks directly to the audience, and tells us that she has stage 4 ovarian cancer and that she dies at the end of the play. For the next two hours (for viewers, not readers), we watch her interact with her doctor, his top fellow, and her nurse. She has flashbacks to her youth, as well as to her early days of graduate school with her great mentor.Dr. Bearing goes through a number of tests throughout the play and gets sicker and sicker. Because of Ms. Edson's strong knowledge of cancer treatment at a research hospital, she depicts it accurately and painfully. The treatment (and the lack of bedside manner of the top fellow) make her question her gruffness with her students over the years.
Certainly much more sparse than the film, which you would expect from the play. But all of the humanity, and struggles over the loss of control of such a "powerfull and demanding teacher" of complex literature, who expected perfection from her students and herself, remains a powerful transition into the painful journey into humanity toward herself and others, her reallization that despite her strong, best efforts, she has her automamy pelled away from her, and finds two kind women (her nurse and former professor) who compassionately allow her to open her fears, humaanity and find peace. You must accompany reading the play by the excellent performance of Emma Thompson in the film version. "May choirs of angels sing thee to thy rest", aftter she allows herself to accept comfort from a child's fairy tale, and the warmth of her former professor who releases her to peace, comfort and love.
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortall us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damn'd; Alas; why should I bee? ... That remember them [i.e., his sins], some claime as debt, I think it mercy, if thou wilst forget.W;t is a clever play, starting with its title. For wit is the weapon the great metaphysical poet John Donne used in his sonnets to approach an unapproachable God and the protagonist of this play, Vivian Bearing, Ph. D., is a Donne scholar whose great book is a study of Donne's twelve Holy Sonnets. (The book is entitled Made Cunningly.) And the use of the semicolon in place of an `I' between the first and last letters of the title echoes a remembered conversation between Vivian, still an undergraduate student, and her soon to be mentor, E. M. Ashford, on the importance of punctuation in Donne's poems. And death shall be no more, comma, Death thou shalt die. Nothing but a breath -a comma- separates life from life everlasting. It is very simple really. With the original punctuation restored, death is no longer something to act out on a stage, with exclamation points. It's a comma, a pause. This way, the uncompromising way, one learns something from this poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death. Soul, God. Past, present. Not insuperable barriers, not semicolons, just a comma.(I suppose a comma would have looked wrong in the title typographically, but the use of the comma still carries forward the conceit of only an item of punctuation separating the beginning of something from the end, in this case, Vivian's life.)The play is cunningly put together, essentially a monologue that continues from beginning until near the very end of the play (Vivian's conversation with the audience about her treatment) interspersed with brief scenes of Vivian with her doctor, Vivian with the nurse and with the technicians, Vivian and the research fellow in medical oncology (who once took her course on the sonnets -"you can't get into medical school unless you're well-rounded") and scenes of remembrance Vivian as an undergraduate with her mentor, Vivian teaching). The play ends in a swirl of activity as Vivian's systems fail. So it's In (Vivian monologuing), Out (swirl of activity, interchanges with other characters), In, Out. It happens over and over again, until the final burst of activity, after which it all just . . . ends.One of the most interesting aspects of the play is the way it captures character. Vivian, ill, discovers that the research fellow, just like her in the classroom, cares less for the people he's caring for than the subject he's studying. But, bitterly ill now, Vivian wants him to care for her, needs care. And thus, responds to the decidedly unintellectual advances of her nurse, who at least accepts that it is part of her job to comfort the frightened and ailing. This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimages last mile; and my race Idly, yet quickly runne, hath this last pace, My spans last inch, my minutes last point, My body, `and my soule John Donne, 1609
Wit is a deeply effective penetration into a key part of the human condition: Isolation and the need for human contact. The professor who is so enthralled with the works of Donne, and the lonely journey through death and G-d that he deals with, realizes that she can only study in in an isolated setting. But when the ideas of Donne begin to manifest themselves in her own fight with cancer, she can no longer cope and longs for the human connection and empathy that she so steadfastly denied those around her for her entire life. A great read and I would definitely recommend reading this book.For people who really like the book, i would suggest watching the movie after you read the book because it helps put everything together.Side Note: This is a play type of writing, for those of you that aren't aware, so its not like a typical book with paragraphs
This book took me by the scruff of the neck and rebuked me for the 'posturing' and 'trying to impress others' type of behaviour, that I and others so often engage in. What do our 'achievements' matter in the face of death? After reading this book, I saw the importance of being 'real', and of being a decent person. I saw too the importance that forgiveness is to those of us who carry weights that have accrued from wrongdoings committed during a lifetime. The 'professionalism' of some of the characters in the play made them seem more akin to robots that to people with a heart and a soul. Being human, with all its frailties and doubts is far preferable to being a machine like character. This book left me with a sense of hope, and longing even, and anxiety too, in the sense that I am moving irrevocably towards the day when I too will take my last gasping breath. But then there is John Donne's word;'One short sleep past, and then we wake eternally; death will be no more, death shall die.'
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