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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and reads the inscription aloud; Frank: 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.
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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 the
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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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“Parsley” revisits a horrific moment in Caribbean history and‚ in doing so‚ highlights the manner in which language and ideology can combine to produce political violence. The poem dramatizes the slaughter of thousands of migrant Haitian sugarcane workers by troops following orders from General. In Dove’s poem‚ the Haitians are killed because they could not pronounce the letter r in perejil‚ the Spanish word for “parsley” (Line 8). The first section‚ “The Cane Fields‚” is narrated in the voices of
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‘Educating Rita’ written by Willy Russell and the film ‘The Help’ written by Kathryn Stockett. In this text we see a fairly un-educated woman blossom and find herself through education; the obstacles she faces on her way to knowledge are the stepping stones in finding herself and entering the new world of education. Rita is a typical uneducated woman; her life is already planned out for her consisting of children‚ cooking/cleaning‚ pub trips and the overall expectation to be content with this life and
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The transitional journey often can be difficult and challenging. The two protagonists‚ Rita and Frank‚ undergo a transformation process involving personal growth and self-awareness. In Act 1 Scene 5‚ Rita emphasis how important the course is to her as shown in the quotes‚ “I’m busy enough findin’ myself‚ let alone findin’ someone else” and “It’s not takin’ the place of life‚ it’s providin’ me with life itself”. This shows Rita’s struggles and difficulties in “finding herself” but also has to
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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 woman
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deals with aspects of growing up or transition into new phases of life and expanding the individual’s horizon. Through this change‚ individuals are faced with a range of consequences. The play Educating Rita by Willy Russell and Ian Mudie’s poem My father began as a god demonstrates that moving into the world could be from the character’s choices‚ transitions‚ social class which are shown through symbolism‚ metaphors and dialogue. Rita has been faced with many consequences with her fixated desire to
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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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