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    Educating Rita

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    "Educating Rita" Director: Lewis Gilbert Screenwriter: Willy Russell Released: 1983 With Julie Walters‚ Michael Caine‚ and others Rita (Julie Walters) is a twenty-six years old hairdresser from Liverpool who has decided to get an education. Not the sort of education that would get her just a better job or more pay‚ but an education that would open up for her a whole new world--a liberal education. Rita wants to be a different person‚ and live an altogether different sort of life than she has

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    Educating Rita

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    Into the World – Educating RitaEducating 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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    values and beliefs and adopt norms conventions which they may find foreign or confronting. In Willy Russell’s two-hander play ‘Educating RitaRita is a curious hairdresser who is dissatisfied with the routine of her work and social life; she seeks inner growth‚ so she signs up for an open university. This leads her into having close relationships with Frank and he helps Rita with her academic quest for knowledge and ultimately soul discovery. In Kath Walker Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poem ‘Son of Mine’‚

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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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    General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Examination June 2010 English Language and Literature (Specification B) Unit 3 Talk in Life and Literature 9.00 am to 11.00 am Thursday 24 June 2010 For this paper you must have: l a 12-page answer book. ELLB3 Time allowed l 2 hours Instructions Use black ink or black ball-point pen. l Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Examining Body for this paper is AQA. The Paper Reference is ELLB3. l Answer one question

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    australian vision essay

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    the place that allow us to belong. Good afternoon year 11. Today I’m here to talk to you about how my understanding of the aspects of belonging have changed through my studying of the two written texts‚ namely china coin by Allan Baillie and educating Rita by willy Russel. All of you will study these texts in year 12. Before I start I want to ask you‚ would you belong to a place without your friends. Belonging is not just a defined word in the dictionary it often means more. Before‚ I thought

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    Educating Rita

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    Rita was reaching for a better life‚ as she was frustrated with the limitations that her old life had to offer her. Rita wanted to close the gap that existed between the world she had lived in all her life and the richer world that she had aspired to live within. Rita desired to find herself through education with Franks help. In making this transition into the new world Rita resulted in change‚ both physically and mentally. The setting of this scene takes place in Frank’s office. This room serves

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    Educating Rita Essay

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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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    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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    Into the World

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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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