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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or the opposite to who they really are. Educating Rita is about a young adult trying to create a better life by getting a better education and creating a better self esteem to feel like she belongs‚ she says she wants to be more like the higher students. As we all know there are hard and easy obstacles that revolve around in life. Rita has to choose whether or not she is going to keep studying with Frank or stop going there and be with Danny‚ Rita found it a hard challenge. The song “I was only
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Restoration comedies ‘often deal with the absurdity of a world with elaborate rules and codes of behaviour or manners.’ To what extent is this view also true in Educating Rita? There are a lot of rules and codes of behaviour that are presented to be absurd in Educating Rita‚ most are introduced by the character or what the character says. Frank sets up the first code of behaviour when he stereotypes his impending student‚ calling her ‘silly’ before he’s even met her‚ a word that can be considered
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Educating Rita True comedy explores themes as serious and important as appear in any tragedy. Demonstrate to what extent Educating Rita contains serious and important themes as well as being a comic play. Willy Russell’s play entitled ‘Educating Rita’ is a dark and comic drama set within the confines of a University classroom. The play features two characters‚ Frank a troubled lecturer who has grown disillusioned with his existence‚ and Rita‚ a working class Liverpudlian with a thirst for
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Educating Rita: Society‚ Education and Self-Reflection Usa Padgate * Abstract Educating Rita is a play written by Willy Russell‚ an English playwright from Liverpool. It was voted ‘Best Comedy of the Year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. By 1983 it had risen to be the fourth most popular play on the British stage. In the same year it was transformed into a film and won the BAFTA Best Film Award as well as Academy Award nominations‚ proving its appeal and popularity
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In Willy Russel’s play "Educating Rita‚" some marks of a love story are to be noticed between both characters. They each show marks of affection for each other. The main aspect of a love story is to have two characters of opposite sex‚ being attracted to one another. The attraction of two people especially deals with having a relationship. In "Educating Rita‚" this is not the case because only the male character is attracted to the female. In a love story‚ both characters are
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Into The World – ’Educating Rita’ Will Russell “Moving into an unfamiliar world will always be accompanied by challenges but such transitions create an environment for personal growth” People encounter different ways in which they encounter new stages of experience that bring about change and growth in their life‚ these aspects of personal growth and transitions into the the world or new phases of an individuals life is clearly evident in Willy Russell’s text ’Educating Rita’ and the two related
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Educating Rita Educating Rita By Armstrong Chikava Educating Rita written Willy Russel is a great play with a good dialogue. The play focuses on only two characters‚ Rita and her teacher Frank. Personally I like Rita’s personality even though I couldn’t really relate to her at all. Rita is portrayed as a working class woman but she wants to change herself and her class‚ it appears that she isn’t satisfied with who she is. During the play‚ she tries to break away from her social
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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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• “It’s not their fault; they can’t help it. But sometimes I hate them. God‚ what’s it like to be free?” • “Frank: Do you know Yeats? Rita: The wine lodge? Frank: Yeats the poet. Rita: No” • “They come to the hairdreser’s cos they wanna be changed. But if you want to change y’ have to do it from the inside‚ don’t y? Know like I’m doin’.” • “I’m not‚ y’ know‚ confident like‚ but I wanna be‚ honest.” • “I think you’re marvellous. Do you know‚ I think you’re the first breath of
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