HISTORY 199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: John Donne, Chemotherapy
22 Mar 2016
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Margaret edson"s play wit exposes a few distinct themes in death and dying. Bearing, has stage iv cancer and is put under aggressive treatment by dr. Kelekian and jason who is one of her former students now in medical residency. Bearing undergoes eight rounds of full dose experimental chemotherapy to the extreme detriment of her health and fails to respond positively to the treatment. Despite this, dr. kelekian and jason press on largely ignoring her fundamental humanity. She becomes almost nothing more than a test subject for them. Bearing begins to reevaluate what she believes to be important. While previously as an academic renowned for her study of john. Donne, she was astute and exhibited great academic wit that she took satisfaction in which she now finds to be insufficient. She analogizes that the way that she dissected and studied words is now the way that she is treated.
