the film Educating Rita and the excerpt “Learning to Read” from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography‚ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Both the movie and the essay deal with the perspective gained through education and how societies affect their education systems. In Educating Rita the audience is introduced to Susan White‚ a married 26 year old working-class hairdresser. After reading a novel Susan is so inspired by the work she chooses to take the author’s first name‚ Rita‚ and to
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concept is effectively conveyed through Willy Russell’s ‘Educating Rita’ and related material ‘About a Boy‚’ the novel by Nick Hornby and film interpretation starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Through Educating Rita‚ Russell has effectively portrayed both the characters of Rita and Frank forming a relationship which ultimately moves them into the world through different experiences of extensions and limitations on individual freedom. Rita finds herself through getting educated by her tutor Frank
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individual will go through many barriers and obstacles to achieve the change. The prescribed text‚ Educating Rita by Willy Russell and the related text‚ ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ by JC Burke explores different and similar pathways to how the characters in those texts change through their new experiences. In the prescribed text ‘Educating Rita’ by Willy Russell is about a 26 years old woman‚ hairdresser Rita who starts seeks motivation in education to motivate her and move into a higher educated class
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Section A 1. Discuss Rita’s sense of being a half caste in Willy Russell’s play. At first Rita is more of an outcast in both social classes. It is when she decides to go to the Open University that she becomes a half cast. She doesn’t seem to fit in when she attends her literature classes. The way she talks‚ looks and behaves differentiates her from the rest of her classmates. Even though her husband does not approve of her studies and that most students are demeaning towards her‚ she is determined
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‘species being’. According to Marx‚ capitalism needed to be put to rest just like any other political oppression in order for a society’s emancipation to be complete. He believed that a society needed to be a political‚ economic and social democracy (Bramann‚ 2009). The main problem with capitalism for Marx was that he saw ‘us’ as a society‚ separated within this capitalistic society‚ that there was a gap between ‘human essence’ and human existence‚ meaning what we are as human beings and how we are
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obstacles. This is shown in the play “Educating Rita” Willy Russell and the book “Piggybook” by Anthony Browne. Both these texts engage on confronting society and going higher in the working class world. Rita is a twenty-six year old hairdresser from Liverpool who has decided to get a higher education. Not the sort of education that would get her just a better job‚ but an education that would open up for her a whole new working- class world‚ a liberal education. Rita wants to be a different person‚
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Text A is an extract from Educating Rita‚ a play by Willy Russell‚ which immediately highlights the fact that this text is crafted speech‚ meaning it will show a lack of spontaneous utterances‚ as Russell will have used specific lexis to add to the emotive aspect of his play. The piece is set in a northern university‚ which conveys there is sociolect‚ such a ‘y’’ in the play. With the participants both being educated‚ as we know Frank is a middle-aged lecturer while Rita is his Open University Student
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are presented in Act Two‚ Scenes One to Three reveal about the development of Rita and Frank and their relationship‚ in Educating Rita? Educating Rita was written in 1980 by the playwright Willy Russell and is one of his most famous plays to date. Since the play has many similarities to Russell’s life‚ it is viewed as a semi-autobiographical play containing certain similarities to his life; for example both he and Rita were female hairdressers and were under-educated at school. The play is written
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that violence in the media does not affect an audience. To support the hypothesis we will conduct an experiment using a sample group of Yr.11 students which attend Westminster school. Three different varied films will be shown for 3 minutes‚ Educating Rita‚ Braveheart and Bugsy Malone. During each film heart rates will be taken at the half-way point and the end to get qualitative results. The independent variable in this experiment is the actual violence viewed by the audience and the dependent
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EDUCATING RITA At the very beginning of the movie it seem like Dr. Bryant did really want to teach any one. Because he told his literature class that the sun was shining and they should be making love. But if you’ll a professor its your job to teach your students regardless if you want to or not. You cant let your personal problems affect your job. Dr. Bryant didn’t want to teach at the begining . He said it was because of the hours of the university. But Rita demanded that
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