In Margaret Edson’s Wit, Vivian Bearing moves towards redemption as she develops from a stone cold intellectual into recognizing herself as a compassionately flawed human. Vivian views herself as an asset to everyone she comes into contact with and is transformed by the humility she is burdened by from being diagnosed with cancer. In Mediation 17, John Donne speaks of God along with his awe striking power and questions what person “casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises?” (Donne). Vivian thinks the same of herself because she believes her mind to be as remarkable as the Sun. For the majority of her life Vivian has been aware of her excelling intelligence and has demanded a certain level of respect because of it, such as Donne recognizes as a necessity for God. After analyzing Donne’s sentence structure throughout Meditation 17, it is recognized that Donne’s most illustrated points are from an interrogative structure. In relation to Vivian, the most impacting points of the play are when Vivian begins to question herself and the tactics she has taken impersonally throughout her life. Unlike God, Vivian is human and is not omnipotent; within her being diagnosed with cancer she has been given the opportunity to see that she is in fact flawed and can be contained by death. Vivian has been born as a person who is unable to “remove it from that bell, which is passing a piece of himself out of this world” (Donne). She comes to realize that no matter how highly she views herself; she cannot remove her death from her life. Vivian transformation into a compassionate is solely because of her cancer. Before she realized that death would son overcome her she believed that her intelligence would be able to conquer anything that challenged her. In fact, hours before her death she admits to Nurse Susie how she “thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see that I have been found out. Ooohhh. I’m scared. Oh, G