Educating Rita
Individuals venturing into new experiences may encounter obstacles, but may also gain significant rewards.
New experiences can lead to a number of obstacles which individuals must overcome in order to gain significant rewards. The movement into a new world can me emotional, physical or mentally and can be a personal change or be promoted by a mentor. In “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell, Frank promotes Rita to venture into his world of education in order for her for achieve the freedom and choice she desires, however Frank can also be a barrier for Rita at times. This change is not an easy change and comes at a cost.
From early on in the play Willy Russell depicts the difference in class through the contrast of Rita and Frank. Rita’s language can been seen as informal, loose and lots of swearing, typical images of a working class upbringing juxtaposed to the precise and formal educated language used by Frank. Rita longs to enter the world of education and escape her working class origins when she realises she is “slightly out of step” therefore she sees the Open University as a way of moving into a different world where she has “choice”. Rita asks Frank “God what’s it like to be free?” but this question is seen as ironic, because Frank is not free and is restricted by his poky office and his unsatisfying job. The office however, is a place where Rita one day wishes to move into. She is unaware and naive that the change she desires is superficial. This is contradicts what she says in scene 1; “But if you try to change y’ have to do it from the inside, don't y’?”. Rita becomes an obstacle for her self, she limits her thinking abilities and her thoughts become influenced by the those thoughts around her. For example Trish and Tyson are important for her movement into the world as she gains self confidence however she begins to lose her ‘rosy view’ of the world and starts to see them more realistically after Trish tries to take her own life. This is an eye
New experiences can lead to a number of obstacles which individuals must overcome in order to gain significant rewards. The movement into a new world can me emotional, physical or mentally and can be a personal change or be promoted by a mentor. In “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell, Frank promotes Rita to venture into his world of education in order for her for achieve the freedom and choice she desires, however Frank can also be a barrier for Rita at times. This change is not an easy change and comes at a cost.
From early on in the play Willy Russell depicts the difference in class through the contrast of Rita and Frank. Rita’s language can been seen as informal, loose and lots of swearing, typical images of a working class upbringing juxtaposed to the precise and formal educated language used by Frank. Rita longs to enter the world of education and escape her working class origins when she realises she is “slightly out of step” therefore she sees the Open University as a way of moving into a different world where she has “choice”. Rita asks Frank “God what’s it like to be free?” but this question is seen as ironic, because Frank is not free and is restricted by his poky office and his unsatisfying job. The office however, is a place where Rita one day wishes to move into. She is unaware and naive that the change she desires is superficial. This is contradicts what she says in scene 1; “But if you try to change y’ have to do it from the inside, don't y’?”. Rita becomes an obstacle for her self, she limits her thinking abilities and her thoughts become influenced by the those thoughts around her. For example Trish and Tyson are important for her movement into the world as she gains self confidence however she begins to lose her ‘rosy view’ of the world and starts to see them more realistically after Trish tries to take her own life. This is an eye