Into the World – Educating Rita • Educating Rita 1991 Director by Willy Russell • EDUCATION = CHOICE • Explores of a variety of texts that deal with aspects of growing up and transitioning into new phases of an individual’s life. ( Growth and change occurs CONTRAST: • Male/ Female • Educated class/ Working Class • Disillusioned/ Cynical/ Enthusiastic • Elite “Howards End” E.M. Forster/ Mass culture “Ruby Fruit Jungle” Rita Mae Brown CONFLICT:
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Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita‚ demonstrates different pathways between the two protagonists‚ Frank and Rita and there coming ‘into the world’ journey. In the play Willy Russell uses visual techniques such as: positioning‚ colouring‚ facial expression‚ and symbols. The use of these techniques has allowed the composer to portray a better understanding of the play Educating Rita and how it represents the message of coming ‘into the world’. One of the main themes in Educating Rita is change. Rita
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In the movie Lars and the Real girl‚ Lars is a man looking for a woman to fill the role of a mother he never had. His mother died while giving birth to him and ever since he has not been the same. He bought a doll named Bianca to fill that nurturing role of a mother and his family and friends began to worry about him. Lars detachment from his family and friends all those years led to him having schizoid personality disorder and reactive attachment disorder. Reactive attachment disorder is when an
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Both movies One Day and Two Nights and Lars and the Real Girl focus on protagonists who need immediate group response‚ which can be understood and evaluated via the social psychological constructs of empathy‚ altruism‚ and egoism. Sandra‚ married mother of two and an employee in a company who returns to work after taking medical leave discovers that her co-workers were forced by their foreman to vote: for their 1‚000 € bonus or to keep her as an employee. The company cannot afford both so the workers
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Educating Rita is a comical play written by Willy Russell in 1982. The play is set in the 1970s where social issues revolving around traditional family values and the roles of men and women are starting to change. The play is based around Rita White who is dissatisfied with her life and wants to transform herself. Throughout the play Rita start to change and realise that education cannot solve everything. Rita is a twenty six year old‚ uneducated Liverpool hairdresser. She has decided to enrol on
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Aristotle said that comedy is ‘’an imitation of inferior people’’. How far do you think that this applies to the character of Rita in the play ‘Educating Rita’? Educating Rita is a play that uses the colloquialism of the main protagonist‚ Rita‚ to create the comedy element for the audience when she is being tutored by Frank‚ an untypical university lecturer who works in the setting of 1980’s northern England. In interpreting the characteristics of Rita‚ it can be identified that comedy is indeed
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Educating Rita and Pleasantville The concept of ‘Into the world’ refers to the transition of an individual into a broader world which transcends class restrictions‚ enriching their sense of identity and freedom. Willy Russel’s play “Educating Rita” depicts Rita’s transition from her working-class background into the world of education while Gary Ross’s film “Pleasantville” similarly displays the journey of an individual from their restrictive background into a new society which. Catalyst The
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cope with the pressures of moving out ‘into the world’. When responding to texts‚ students are to demonstrate the different pathways (worlds and ways of coping) that are available. Educating Rita - Willy Russell explores notions of personal growth and self awareness through the transformation and process of change that occurs in Frank and Rita. the playwright describes the play as
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the themes of Exploring Transitions. The prescribed text will be Educating Rita by Willy Russel while my three related texts that I have chosen area film called the secret life of Walter Mitty‚ a poem Listening to Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney and last is Another loser has-been fades
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now knows “what clothes to wear‚ what wine to buy‚ what plays to see‚ what books and papers to read.” Frank dismisses her achievements as “so very little.” Frank is uncomfortable with Rita’s transformation in crossing the divide between her and the “real” students and their world. Rita is now like a parrot using literary jargon and a sophisticated vocabulary unable to think for her. Clothing is an important motif‚ as Rita gains confidence in her new lifestyle‚ she changes the clothes she wears and
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