an inherent part of moving ‘into the world’. Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita‚ shows us that attitude is important for change and growing ‘into the world’. The new experiences can be problematic but it’s up to the individual to prevail and conquer. It demonstrates to us that change involves taking risks leading to positive consequences of change. Opening the door provides new experiences for growth and change just like Rita opening the door to her lessons provides her the opportunity to absorb
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looking at certain issues or points relating into the world. What we don’t realise in the 21st century is that year 12 students studying supplementary material in standard English may find it difficult to understand and come to terms with it. ‘Educating Rita’ 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. Perhaps Willy Russell’s attitude towards his work might partly explain
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Educating Rita Quotation Act one Scene 1 1. Rita: “Do you get a lot of students like me?” Frank: “Not exactly‚ no...” 2. Rita: “You work for the ordinary university‚ don’t y’? With the real students.” 3. Rita: “If I pack the course in I’ll post it to y’.” 4. Rita: “But if you want change y’ have to do it from the inside.” 5. Frank: “I think you’re the first breath of air that’s been in this room for years.” 6. Frank: “I think you’re marvellous
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British play educating Rita by Willy Russell. The play is about a young woman named Rita entering into a new of education‚ seeking knowledge and sophistication as well as finding herself and where she fits in. In her world. Similarly‚ the text‚ The play itself is a two handed play Consisting of Rita and Frank‚ Frank a middle aged “upper class” man whom drowns himself throughout the play in scotch and alcoholic drinks symbolizing Franks dire need for a change in his life. And Rita on the other hand
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How does Russel establish the characters of Rita? In the play “Educating Rita”‚ Rita is one of the main character along with Frank. She is described as a twenty-six years old women that works as an hairdresser. “ y’ know if I’m in the hairdresser’s – that’s where I work-“. Russel since from the beginning of the play lets the audience know that Rita is situated in the working class as she works in the hairdresser. This can also be understood by the way she introduced herself to Frank in scene
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In Willy Russell’s Educating Rita‚ the issues of class inequalities and the choices of education are the key themes of the play. These ideas are convey through not only by the character of Frank and Rita and their uses of language but also the dramatic technique employed. Class differences are clearly illustrated at the beginning of the play‚ in the relationship between Frank and Rita. Class differences are especially evident when Rita assumes that an academic like Frank will enjoy fictions such
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play Educating Rita‚ by Willy Russell‚ where Rita’s growth and change comes about with her education and experiences in her social‚ working-class life. A passage from "A Patch Of Blue” by Elizabeth Kata also demonstrate how new stages of experience can bring about risks and benefits in one’s life leading to a transition into a broader world. Growth and change often comes about when new stages of experience allow a transition ‘into the world’. This is illustrated in Educating Rita as Rita grows
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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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Within Educating Rita it could be argued that Russell is trying to depict an aspect of conflict within class and culture in the UK- the play itself being in the context of the country during the 1980’s where the rise of Thatcherism grasped many industrialised areas of Britain‚ thus Russell attempts to depict the importance of education with in this era to those who wanted to escape from the lower end of the social scale. This directly affects one of the two characters in the play‚ Rita. Who- due
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EDUCATING RITA INTERVIEW Host: Good morning listeners‚ this is Sam Lee with this week’s program of ‘Into the world’ where we discuss ways individuals make challenging transitions into new and different worlds and the risks and possibilities‚ which coincide with them. Significant experiences in people’s lives provide opportunities for growth and development. Going ‘into the world’ means moving from familiar experiences to new horizons. We are especially blessed today to have Willy Russell famous
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