Margaret Edson's Wit: Truth Is The Motivation Of Idealism

Truth is the Motivation of Idealism

Truth is comparative; it is not exact, specifically in nature. We human beings describe it as something that truthful and make sense and something that did happen. However, since we as human beings have come into struggle on what the "TRUTH" really is then that already suggest we have difficulties defining what the "TRUTH" is. Now this is where idealism comes in because truth is based on our worldviews.

In Margaret Edson's Wit, Vivian Bearing is a professor with deadly ovarian cancer whose life circles around knowledge and education. For many individuals, balance is fundamental component in life. Supporting equilibrium between idealism and truth is a incredible part of living stable and satisfied life. Vivian expresses that the fact of being idealistic within her being and her career is important, but you must acknowledge the reality of living as well. When she knows she have cancer Dr. Kelekian tells her to be tough. Flowing into a flashback, she tells the audience, "And I know for a fact that I am tough. A demanding professor. Uncompromising. Never one to turn from a challenge. That is why I chose, while a student of the great E. M. Ashford, to study John Donne," (6). Bearing equates her intellectual curiosity to emotional toughness, since the barely thing she feels relaxed wrapping her head around is challenging literary text. Vivian uses her high standards of education to motivate herself to be tough in her last hours of cancer, but with all her knowledge she seems imbalanced in her life. The Vivian idea of idealism and truth of existence is to be full contributing to knowledge of everything she does.

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...n this quote she displays the moment when she starts to identify the truth of her life and what she could change if she survives longer. But sadly not everyone has the opportunities to change their life and Vivian is one of these people “this is my place last scene, here heavens appoint my pilgrimages last mile” (34). Everyone in this life has the opportunities to realize the true and balance with idealism term to live a comfortable life, and death is not the only obstacle that standing in the front of change, but it can take a person within a second. So being aware to understand the true and the meaning in your life, and be able to change it to live an accomplished life. Therefore, Sometimes in life we become so preoccupied with the bad days we get the ability to recognize our entire life. But the time is the powerful Factor to change what we recognize in our life.