The Women with the IV pole

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According to a survey done by the American Institute of Stress, the annual costs to employers in stress related health care and missed work is 300 billion dollars. The survey stipulates the fact that the contemporary society is moving towards materialism that not only brings riches but also a disease called stress; stress essentially upsets ones balance and makes people to be despondent. Stress can be overcomed through contentment and happiness, such aspects are evidently absent in the present materialistic society. The strive towards momentary pleasures only brings the society happiness for some time and on the long run it brings them depression . A Nobel Peace Prize acceptor and a world acclaimed mentor , Dalai Lama said that “Happiness is not something ready made.It comes from your own actions”, this accentuates the simple means to attain happiness.Moreover, the art of living is centralized in happiness that lies in the little parcels of love and joy we get and give others, and it also institutes for a harmonious and a bright inner and outer person. Unfortunately, the corporate society of today fails to recognize the virtue of small joys that is granted by acts of compassion and altruism.Margaret Edson epitomizes kindness and warmth as indispensable elements to celebrate life, and she also stresses the importance of compassion through her play, Wit, by portraying the character of Vivian Bearing as an established intellect who eventually succumbs desperately for tenderness. Howard’s photograph conveys the significance of solicitude similar to Edson’s play, and while both portray the healing power of love and compassion, Edson instigated how the society’s pernicious move towards distinction and knowledge leads to imperiled...

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...nd only visitor for Vivian when she was going through the last moments of her life ; Ashford’s visit is quite similar to the Owl- Eye character in The Great Gatsby. Both Owl-Eye and Ashford resonates wisdom , and when Ashford and Owl-Eye attended Vivian and Gatsby’s final moments they symbolised the omnipresence of God and the support they were given in the last moments of their life that was absent of intimate relationships. Moreover ,Professor Ashford’s affection in the last scenes of the play is vividly illustrated in Howard’s photograph of Vivian and E.M Ashford. The photograph shows Vivian’s peacefulness and pleasant state after she has received compassion from her eighty year old professor,who gave her a slight hope for the future. Professor E.M Ashford epitomizes intellect and compassion that is intermingled for a profound character with a successful life.

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