5/13/2023 0 Comments The wonder novel emma donoghueNurse Wright has suffered her fair share of tragedy - her baby daughter died and her husband left her soon after - and the night cap might be her way of coping. Nurse Wright's addiction to what looks to be laudanum, a tincture of opium, is another nod to that question of what's real and what isn't. What does Nurse Wright drink every night? This framing also sets us up to be aware of the transportive power of storytelling - you're quickly immersed in the creaking, drippy, smokey world of the ship and Nurse Wright's journey, a journey the narrator has invited us to believe in. Nurse Wright is enlisted to watch the girl for two weeks to determine how she's still alive. The whole reason Nurse Wright is summoned by a self-appointed committee to a village in Ireland is that many people want to believe a young girl called Anna O'Donnell has miraculously lived without food for four months. But it effectively sets up the main theme of the film: the power of belief. William (Tom Burke), Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) and Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh).
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