Cancer Ward The old doctor

A detailed Summary of Cancer Ward The old doctor

In this chapter Ludmila goes to visit her former mentor Dr. Oreshchenkov. He lives in a nice home and it is filled with things of the past and who he is. Ludmila has realized that she has cancer. However, she is not willing to except her own intuition and goes to Oreshchenkov to be

sure and even to be told that "it's nothing serious". While she is there she has a small sense of release and calm. Later the two of them get in to a discussion over the need for the "family- doctor". These scenes have deeper meaning than just the literal sense. This chapter can be interpreted by using Dante's "Four Levels of Interpretation". The first level of interpretation is

the literal. This level focuses on what literally happened in the story. The second level of interpretation is the allegorical. This level is concerned with the meaning hidden beneath the words in the literal sense. It tells of the nature of man and what we do in certain situations. The third level is the moral level. It is the message behind the story. This level teaches us a lesson that we should use in our lives. The fourth and final level is the anagogical level. This is the level that is the sense beyond. It is not only literally true

one we trust to lift the burden from our shoulders. This is also true on a spiritual level. We all get to the point that we are being weighed down by sin and we just need to be freed. All it takes is for us to return to a place and state of mind in which we trust in God to be released. Even though she

was to preserve unspoiled, undisturbed and undistorted

is temporarily freed from this heavy burden she is still becomes restless when she thinks of her symptoms which are most certainly caused by cancer. Even though her instincts and the things she learned through the study of oncology she still does not want to accept the fact that she has cancer. She does not even want to think about it. Because of her education she is fully aware of

your fighting for the person not against the disease. You can no longer freely give up and move on. You must now hang in with the person. Dr. Oreshchenkov also understands that in order to do that, you can only treat the number of patients you can remember. You must be with the patient for as long as they need and want you. Oreshchenkov knows that the best way to accomplish this is to treat the same patient for the entirety of their life. He also believes that a doctor should be more than just a physician, but a person to help guild you trough your life and cleanse your views of the world. Though out our lives we do not see others as being people. We only see them as objects. Either by their physical attractiveness, their wealth and influence, or even their faults. This allows us to use them for our own purposes. Yefrem only saw women as sexual objects and therefore he did not feel guilty about seducing hundreds of women until he saw that he was wrong. That they were more than just objects. Pavel, being a materialist, only sees people as their influence and possessions. This is why he has no remorse for pushing down and extorting those who he saw as below him. He refuses to see them as anything more than objects he can control. We as society allow ourselves the luxury of seeing people as object in which we

through. This challenges the doctor to see the patient as the person they are and not the disease they have. Now they can treat the patient instead of the disease. When treating the patient the disease is no longer seen as an evil, but a simple biological element that is neither good nor evil. This is much more difficult, because now you are involved with the situation and you see that

it also does what it can to tell them who they should be. It uses this like a cell of cancer uses the body that it is infecting to supply it with nutrients, energy and power. The communist hold the people they are controlling at the bottom in a position in which they can supply goods and wealth

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