Margaret Edson's play "W;t" tells a compelling story of Dr. Vivian Bearing who is the main character. She is a renowned professor of seventeenth-century poetry, specializing in the "Holy Sonnets" by John Donne. Ms. Bearing is diagnosed with deadly ovarian cancer that will eventually take her life. After she is diagnosed she approaches her illness aggressively as she approaches Donne, and she must now become the student instead of the teacher. She is determined to survive, but in the opening scene she says, "it is not my intention to give away the plot; I think I die at the end"(6).
Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to the study of Donne: aggressive
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