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The play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is a play about a woman named Blanche Dubois who goes to live with her sister after she loses her home in Mississippi. Between the hardships of her previous life and the way she is treated now, she is not in a good way by the time the play ends. She basically has a mental breakdown. There are three stages of Blanche’s mental state. She lives in a fantasy, Mitch rejecting her, and Stanley raping her, Blanche is mentally unstable by the end of this ply.

In the play “Grand Concourse,” the talented playwriter and actress Heidi Schreck develops a plot based on the natural human conflict about the forgiveness toward unintentional actions. Heidi Schreck is a recognized writer who has been awarded with one-year residency by New York's Playwrights Horizons (Silk Road Rising 17,18). Named after the main street of the Bronx in New York City, the play shows the conflict that its characters face in the internal war between goodness and evil. The opposition between the actions of Emma (antagonist) and Shelley (protagonist) shows the complexity of human compassion towards the evil (sometimes unintentional) actions. Looking at the main actions of Emma in the play she egotistically seems to manipulate all the characters to feel better about herself. However, a deeper glazing indicates that her depression leads her to hurt people around her unintentionally; she tries to get forgiveness, but she realizes that the solution it is more complex that just an apologize.

Vivian’s physical suffering is caused by her illness, which slowly deteriorates her identity. In W;t, Vivian’s physical character is enhanced by her power through Language and it’s discourse. As time progresses, cancer slowly cause’s her to suffer physically, and therefore inverts her powerful identity. On page 25, Vivian’s body is clinically deconstructed, the

The affair between Charlotte and Rodney was a dull one until they began killing each other. Within the play 7 Stories by Morris Panych, the character Charlotte outlines in a particularly insightful monologue how the energy of her affair with Rodney had deteriorated to a state where the couple got so tired of one another, they began to hate each other. Thus, to rid themselves of the uniformity of their days, they began to play at murdering one another. This may seem to be a strange practice, but in fact the role playing that these two do infuses the relationship with new energy – by this escape from reality, the couple found a way to enjoy being together again. Characters trying to escape reality is something that is seen multiple times in

Human connections or research, which one is more imperative to live a gratifying life? Many scholars, physicians and researchers are haunted by this enigma because of the career they worship. By drawing on the parallels between the academic and medical field, Margaret Edson’s play W;it manifests the idea of why it is vital for scholars to have a balance between concern for quality of life and research. Several scenes demonstrate the prevalence of how professionals may unintentionally quarantine themselves from the very people they initially sought to serve. In the play, three scenes that establish this theme are when Vivian denies her student’s request for an extended deadline of the essay, when Jason enters Vivian’s room when she is in the

Monahan’s inability to truly understand Bearing’s condition is in a different way. As a nurse, she cares for Bearing and provides the bedside manner of her treatment but her personality is off-putting to Bearing who dislikes her intonation and the way she tries to connect with Bearing. These parallel characters all work together to promote the theme of knowledge, death, and isolation in Edson’s Wit. Throughout the story, Bearing requires true human compassion and kindness but is given isolation from the staff instead as

Nearly 70% of Americans will die in a hospital or care-facility, while this 70% would prefer to pass away in their own home. Most people with chronic diseases wish to avoid hospitalization during the end of their life (pbs.org).Vivian Bearing from the play, Wit by Margaret Edson, is diagnosed with stage 4 terminal cancer and is then immediately hospitalized. There, she is put into an intensive treatment program where it caused great physical and emotional pain to her. The more time that passed, the greater the decrease in Dr. Bearing’s quality of life. Being sick like this had caused Dr. Bearing to lose her independence, a quality she had greatly valued. She was forced to accept the loss of her self-reliance, and even worse, the fact that she was going to die. Often times the most difficult part of having a terminal illness is losing self-defining qualities along with coping with the weight of the looming fate. As shown in the play Wit, the diagnosis of a terminal illness often has devastating effects on one’s mental health, quality of life and independence, along with the struggle of accepting death. By understanding these conditions one can better prepare for the inevitable, while medical professionals can provide more appropriate support and care.

Vivian recalls undergoing tests by various medical technicians and being the subject of grand rounds. She remembers sharing a love of language and books with her father. She flashes back to her experiences as a student of Dr E. M. Ashford, an expert on John Donne. Bearing later finds herself under the care of Dr Jason Posner, an oncology research fellow who has taken her class on John Donne. At the hospital, she recognizes that doctors are interested in her for her research value and, like her, tend to ignore humanity in favor of knowledge. Gradually, she realizes that she would prefer kindness to

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

While moving through the town, the Birdsong family and servants stop at the Culver residence for food and rest. Upon entering, they find that the house is deserted, the only objects that remained inside was the furniture, witch were covered with sheets. Geneva thinks that Haze acted in revenge and said this. "She never could forgive me for the fact that Haze and I-"(Carr 117). Just like Geneva couldn't finish that statement, she could not admit to herself that she had made a mistake by marrying Ian. This mistake was the first of many cascading mistakes that plagued her life and further cascaded by influencing the life of young Saranell. Much like in Leaving Guilead, the novel Death Be Not Proud, by John J. Gunther, the main character, Johnny, is unable to receive his endgame and refuses to submit. He is diagnosed with a brain tumor and is informed after a critical surgery to remove it, that he has no more that a few months to live and decides this. “(a) the tumor had never been bigger than 'a plum' (b) ... (d) what was happening now was merely to clear up odds and ends. Nothing could shake him from this belief.. He said, 'I’ m afraid the tumor has gone to my head,' and once he chorded ironically to Frances, his mother,' I must take my mind off my brain'"(Gunther 63)! While both Geneva and Johnny have similar outlooks on life, the results they leave them with are completely opposite. Johnny Gunther being unable to accept his fate was what extended his life by many months and gave him joy, while on the other hand, Geneva's viewpoint left her life miserable and still regretfully short. Therefore, much of being unable, is a conscious choice on how you will let it influence your words, actions, and view on your

In Jeanne P Johnson’s “Reimagining Charlotte’s Web as the Creative Experience of Play” article Johnson focuses on the idea that Charlotte’s Web is based on the power of hope, compassion and friend ship despite inevitable death. Johnson presents the idea that the actions of the characters have hidden meaning and contribute to the creative experience of the reader.

Vivian doesn’t have any family and she hasn’t had any close friends throughout her life. This causes her to not have someone to enjoy herself with or someone to care for her when shes is sick like she is in the play. “Kelekian: (Giving her a piece of paper) Here is the informed-consent form. Should you agree, you sign there, at the bottom. Is there a family member you want me to explain this to? Vivian: (Signing) That won’t be necessary” (Edison 11). This quote really shows the effects of Miss Bearing taking life for granted by not making any close friends or such which caused her to not be able to make every day like her last. If she had a close friend then she would have been able to had someone to support her and make each day of her’s during her treatment pleasant. Without someone to support her and make her treatment pleasant fighting cancer was a lot harder because is hard to get her mind off of the cancer which lowered her

Mrs. Wright, a woman longing for the missing piece of happiness within her marriage, is suspected of killing her husband in relation to the canary. Despite the emphasis on the crime, a closer look at the demoralized relationship that Mrs. Hales and Mrs. Peters have with Mrs. Wright reveals that knowing her past life, and having the connection in society, allows them to search for her identity. To determine the reason for Mrs. Wright’s actions, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter become acquaintances, but through the progression of the story, the information they both have on Mrs. Wright creates a strong investigation on whether she killed her husband. In the play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Hales and Mrs. Peters were not always present for Mrs. Wright and now are determined to make up for lost times to reverse the possible conviction she could face.

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Susan Glaspell's “Trifles” can be interpreted as the work of a feminist. The play explains the life of a Minnie Wright (Mrs. Wright who has been demeaned and subjugated by an abusive husband. Mrs. Wright is eventually driven to kill her husband, the husband who has taken away her identity itself. “Trifles” emphasizes the discrimination of women inside a male dominated society while simultaneously speaking about the dangers for women who fall victim to the hierarchies. Mrs. Wright followed the role mapped out for her life by her husband and society's expectations, and as a result, her identity was lost somewhere along the way. However, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters quietly insist on preserving their own identities by hiding evidence that would prove that Mrs. Wright killed her husband.