WIT

RECOMMENDATION: 5 of 10. Needs a major rewrite for consideration. CONCEPT: An innocent young jockey falls in love with an old horse. Same old horse racing story with an unnecessary twist. LOGLINE: Patty runs away to become a jockey, but her dream job becomes a nightmare when she enjoys the limelight too much and forgets about how she became successful. PLOT: Patty Williams’ home life propels her to escape an abusive father’s drunken rage, and runs away. She hopes on a bus to pursue a career…

Moses Maimonides, in his Guide for the Perplexed written between 1137 and 1190, concerns Aristotle’s natural philosophy and the astronomers’ conflicting truths. Around the twelfth century, most were a devoted Aristotelian, and educated people knew that stars in the celestial realm only had one motion, to revolve in a spherical motion around the centre of the universe . What Maimonides notes however, is that Aristotelian physics could not infer the existence of epicycles and eccentric circles.…

Throughout the movie “Wit”, Dr Jason Posner, a former student of Vivian Bearing, is subpar in everything he does, in his work, in the way he treats his patients and views them as research make him not a good doctor and not deserving an A The way Dr. Posner treats Vivian during the gynecological examination, shows his subpar personality, his uncaring manners towards his patients, his lack of experience and atrocious bedside manners. During the gynecological examination, it is very evident that…

“Ulysses did not lose his wits” (Evslin 45). Ulysses is known to be very sharp in all aspects. In the book The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin, Ulysses shows a lot of his calculating traits as well as sharp-witted and having a lion heart. Ulysses has been shown as a very calculating person, this means that he is smart and thinks his situations through. As a matter of fact, he showed this when Polyphemus asked for the stranger's name. Ulysses thought this situation through. He knew that…

Strength Found in Susie In the inspirational movie Wit, there are many miscues in the healthcare-client interaction and moral character within the health field towards Vivian Bearing. Vivian, a doctorate of English literature, is suffering from stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. Throughout the film, Vivian experiences terrible bedside manner from physicians, ignorance of hospital staff, and feelings of being nothing more than scientific research. However Susie Monahan, the oncology nurse,…

In the book Wit, by Margaret Edson, Vivian Bearing an English professor is diagnosed with cancer and decides to have an experimental treatment so doctors could learn about her disease. In this book Bearing has many goals she wishes to fulfil before her passing much like Faulkner’s book, As I Lay Dying. Much like Wit, Faulkner’s As I lay Dying follows an order of events that the ill mother, Addie and her loved ones needed to fulfil before death came for Addie. In both works an individual is…

this society regulate importance and classify superiority. In Margaret Edson’s play, Wit, the characters are not only trying to find their place in this societal order, but they are actively trying to fight their way to the top; to achieve the most knowledge and most power. Wit carefully exemplifies the importance of one’s knowledge and power in order to flourish over another character. In the opening scene of Wit, Vivian Bearing…

The behaviors of medical staff in the play Wit by Margaret Edson (1998) allow us to view different circumstances that take place. In the play, patients are supposed to be the main focus of all care. Susie Monahan, the primary nurse of one patient, Vivian Bearing, who suffers from stage four ovarian cancer, is one of the few health professionals whose caring attributes display the principle that the focus of care should be on the patient. However, if Monahan was part of the collaborating team,…

Madeline M. Keaveney wrote an analysis of Margaret Edson's play “WIT “that I liked a lot because she pulled out a few things that I hadn’t picked up on. It’s very evident from the beginning that Vivian Bearing, the main character in “Wit” is very selective on her word choice and takes great pride in her use of the English language. After all she is a professor of English literature, specializing in seventeenth–century poetry. Madeline points out how the characters address each other though out…

of the most amusing and entertaining books to read and just because of the amount of wit and intelligence that can be found in it. Every conversation is a contest on who can make the wittiest comment, though usually won by Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry is a master in the art of conversation and uses epigrams to convey his intelligence. Though wit and intelligence play a large role in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wit and intelligence is shown in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Lord Henry’s interest…