(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 “a love story”‚ although the relationship that unfolds between Rita and Frank is also a story about “literature‚ language and education”.
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Educating Rita Educating Rita by Willy Russell follows the protagonist‚ Rita’s‚ attempts to break away from her mundane and meaningless working class existence by gaining a University education. Through the help from her reluctant tutor‚ Frank‚ Rita attempts to overcome the social constraints that prevent an individual from transferring between different social classes and solidify her position in the educated middle class. As both Frank and Rita attempt to escape the worlds that they belong to
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growth and development. The film “Educating Rita”‚ by Willy Russel‚ about the transformation of a woman going into the world‚ is great proof for the point of going ‘Into the World’. It is also apparent in the film “Remember the Titans” and through my own personal experience. Individuals moving into the world are bound to come across many obstacles that they overcome to be successful. “I’m coming aren’t I? It’s that stupid bleeding door of yours” complains Rita‚ at the initial stage of going into
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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 an imitation of inferior people as highlighted
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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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http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FGA72pS2dhkC&pg=PA96&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false Witness by Peter Weir This unit was prepared by Peter Yorke‚ St Marys Senior High School. About the film and director Film genre Story and plot Characters Setting Issues and themes Film techniques in Witness Camera placement Editing Close study of two important sequences Other techniques Writing tasks References About the film and director Witness is an
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I’m gonna be dead clever ear and say ‘Education is not the filling of a bucket‚ but the lighting of a fire.’ W B Yeats. You lit my fire Frank. Maybe you’ll understand this now... Rita Frank: W B Yeats‚ Thanks for reminding me Rita ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ springs to mind again! The musings of a middle aged man like myself. I lost the appetite for being a poet long ago and now all I have left is nothing except the acrid taste of whisky in my mouth.... Stage directions – Franks voice trails
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Educating Rita – work undertaken by students –how growth and change (and obstacles to these) are explored in Act 1 Scene 1: * Door- ‘Stuck in a rut’. A barrier making a struggle to start a new beginning and put a divide between her old world and new world. ‘ Open one door‚ close another’. The door is a sign for Rita to re-think whether she really does want a change in her life and whether she really is ready to make a change. * Language- Dialogue revealing the different classes between
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Evaluating Educating Rita Educating Rita tells a story of a 26-year-old married hairdresser‚ Rita‚ who decided to get education by taking a course in English literature from the Open University. Through the development of the relationship between Rita and her alcoholic and cynical tutor‚ Frank‚ this story brings up many concepts in adult development and education. After watching the movie‚ I have a further understanding of the concepts of changes‚ motivation to learn‚ freedom‚ and stability. Rita is a
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Educating Rita An exploration through a variety of texts that deal with ‘aspects of growing up and transitions into new phrases of an individual’s life’. Connection to: Into the World * Rita moves from an ‘uneducated’ working class life to a tertiary educated life. * It is this transition with its positives and negatives that is to be focused upon. Positives of Transition * Discovery & Enlightenment: Rita discovers a new world far removed from her ‘restrictive’ world as a wife and
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