Bearing understands what she is going to go through and is in terms with that on an intellectual level. There are many of times that she tells the doctors (and audience) to keep giving the highest dosing of chemotherapy.ĭr. She feels as if she can beat this disease and get back to teaching as soon as possible. In the first stage of the play where Vivian is initially diagnosed she shows signs of defiance, which gives the play a real life scenario feeling because it is natural to be in denial for a person under her circumstances. Throughout the play itself Dr.īearing goes through many trials and tribulations and her interactions with the audience, doctors, former students, and herself all show how she goes through stages in order to come to terms with her illness.
This character is diagnosed with cancer and the play is about her treatments and battle with the cancer that ultimately at the end of the play leads to her death. Vivian Bearing who is an esteemed professor of early 17th century poetry and fits the bill of the hard-nosed stubborn professor. In the play Wit by Margaret Edson the main character is Dr.
Wit Every student has at some point in his or her educational career had a teacher that seemed completely unreasonable and immune to any sympathy towards the student.
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