Friday 3 November 2017

Anatomy Of A Suicide - On Veracity

In the first scene of Anatomy of a Suicide when the audience meets Anna, she says "veracity" whilst drunk. Not only does this show the extent of her intelligence, it also suggests that she has gone to university as shown in my timeline of Anna's life on a previous post. The word veracity means accuracy and furthermore, in nursing it refers to the ethics of telling the truth and is one guide of the conduct of medical practitioners. Anna could have learnt this whilst studying to be a nurse. In this sense, it could be said that Anna met Dan whilst they were both working in hospital, hence why they have a past and know each other so well but Dan decided to cut ties after Anna became a drug addict and raped his brother. This could be why Bonnie decides to be a doctor to feel some way in contact with her mother whom she never got to know. This could, however, be a coincidence, but I thought it was interesting that Anna says this word to Dan whilst they're in a hospital and that Bonnie becomes a doctor herself, especially when Jo asks Bonnie in their first scene if Bonnie's father had been a doctor (in this sense it would be Bonnie's mother that was almost the medical professional).

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