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
Premium Educating Rita Family values
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
Premium Sociology New World World
Single-sex schools are not very common nowadays‚ but there was a time when it was the general trend in education that boys and girls studied separately. Historic novels are rich in heroines who complete their education in girls’ boarding schools and become real ladies. Going apart to the historical data‚ in colonial time’s boys and girls were educated separately. But by the mid 19th century financing for education was becoming a public expense and girls and boys began to share classes (Kennedy‚ 2012)
Premium Education
cope with the pressures of moving out ‘into the world’. When responding to texts‚ students are to demonstrate the different pathways (worlds and ways of coping) that are available. Educating Rita - Willy Russell explores notions of personal growth and self awareness through the transformation and process of change that occurs in Frank and Rita. the playwright describes the play as
Premium Education World Educating Rita
I am numb. My hand shakes as I attempt to read the words on my screen. I read the words again unable to realize what they are saying. But I must of realized because I feel tears running down my face. The phone shakes out of my hand as i tremble. I just cry for a while. I don’t know how to reply. I don’t know what there is to say. I feel rejected‚ hurt‚ stupid. I care to much that is my weekness I care to much about people who don’t give a shit about me. I am mad but not for long I’m mad at myself
Premium 2006 singles 2003 singles 2002 singles
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’. This question in the HSC is usually a common question that invites the student to apply their text and individual other related material to the question. As such it is much easier to plan‚ organise and prepare a response. Students MUST remember that the question/task will be about ‘Into the World’‚ not Educating Rita! Any response requires
Premium Education Psychology Learning
Aristotle said that comedy is ‘’an imitation of inferior people’’. How far do you think that this applies to the character of Rita in the play ‘Educating Rita’? Educating Rita is a play that uses the colloquialism of the main protagonist‚ Rita‚ to create the comedy element for the audience when she is being tutored by Frank‚ an untypical university lecturer who works in the setting of 1980’s northern England. In interpreting the characteristics of Rita‚ it can be identified that comedy is indeed
Premium Social class Middle class Working class
the themes of Exploring Transitions. The prescribed 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
Premium The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Drama Literary technique
Comparison of "The Boarding House" and "Araby" James Joyce wrote a collection of short stories that can be found published as Dubliners. An observant reader may notice a trend throughout these stories. They are stories of frustration and escape from the harsh realities that the characters are bound in. "Araby" details a boy’s first crush portraying youth and childhood. "The Boarding House" portrays marriage and love as a social convention and a trap. The innocent enthusiasm of "Araby" cannot be found
Premium Dubliners Dublin James Joyce
Should boys and girls attend separate schools? SherikhanValiyeva 20112291 Karina Narymbetova Academic Reading and Writing 1 Section 11 KIMEP September 28‚ 2012 Abstract This essay will consider on why attending single sex school is beneficial for children than attending public or private schools. According to the new research
Premium Education