Educating Rita Transition

Good morning/afternoon everyone, before I start what istransition ? Transition is the process or period of change from one state to another and changing ideas, beliefs and attitudes to another. This process of transition could provide new thoughts and could be exciting ,provocative or confronting. Today I will be discussing my understanding of the prescribed text and my three other related texts. I will talk about the use of dramatic techniques to highlight 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
It is about Walters change from a shy and restrained person to someone who lives life with enthusiasm and is outgoing. Much like Rita in Educating Rita, Walters change is upwards and is intended to better improve his life. But unlike Rita however, Walters change, however, is not planned. Instead, it occurs in response to circumstances and gains momentum. The main theme in this related text is Personal Growth as Walter believes that dreams should become reality. Walter at the start of the film seems alone even through the first scenes. The film starts off with Walter sitting on the bench all alone. They used a wide angle shot to portray this. This gives the intention that the director focused on him being alone portraying that Walter is alone on the floor like he is separated from the world. The scene then using a different camera angle to show us the facial expressions of Walter which was expressionless. They used a mid-angle shot to show us this. These two camera angles have shown us that Walter is in a completely different world when he is daydreaming all alone. In one scene, Walter tries to relax with a cigarette, and his subconscious places him on the wall of a firing squad. To his mind, he will
This is an artwork which portrays being trapped in the social expectations. In the artwork, it shows a cage full of individuals and an individual flying outside the window. The use of vector with the cage being the first thing you see. The cage represents being trapped within the social expectations and being the same as those around you. The individual trapped inside the cage are all the same with the exact same similarities. The cage is also positioned inside near a window which shows us once again being trapped inside. However outside that window is an individual flying away. The cartoon’s perspective on belonging is that, at least for the right individual, it is something to be celebrated, admired and looked up to which can bring the individual who goes it alone feelings of elation and freedom. The contrast of the shadows and light effectively divides the frame into two different panels. one in which the group huddles darkly for protection, symbolically caged by their fears of facing the social expectations, and the other is the individual symbolically stretches his wings and flying away, representing their freedom and transition as they travel towards a clear sky portraying a bright future . The caption, “another has-been loser fades into obscurity”, a sum of emotive qualities signify the disapproval of the individuals trapped in the cage for the individual who spreads his wings and