How has Educating Rita by Willy Russel shaped your understanding of belonging? Discuss with reference to language and dramatic techniques For a person to belong into a certain group‚ class or society‚ they must learn to fit in with that certain group‚ class or society and learn the rituals‚ language‚ behaviour responsibilities and culture. The sense of belonging to one of these social groups gives one a sense of belonging‚ and cancels out the feeling of exclusion and isolation. The journey into
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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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values and beliefs and adopt norms conventions which they may find foreign or confronting. In Willy Russell’s two-hander play ‘Educating Rita’ Rita 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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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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the film Educating Rita and the excerpt “Learning to Read” from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography‚ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Both the movie and the essay deal with the perspective gained through education and how societies affect their education systems. In Educating Rita the audience is introduced to Susan White‚ a married 26 year old working-class hairdresser. After reading a novel Susan is so inspired by the work she chooses to take the author’s first name‚ Rita‚ and to
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individual will go through many barriers and obstacles to achieve the change. The prescribed text‚ Educating Rita by Willy Russell and the related text‚ ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ by JC Burke explores different and similar pathways to how the characters in those texts change through their new experiences. In the prescribed text ‘Educating Rita’ by Willy Russell is about a 26 years old woman‚ hairdresser Rita who starts seeks motivation in education to motivate her and move into a higher educated class
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Section A 1. Discuss Rita’s sense of being a half caste in Willy Russell’s play. At first Rita is more of an outcast in both social classes. It is when she decides to go to the Open University that she becomes a half cast. She doesn’t seem to fit in when she attends her literature classes. The way she talks‚ looks and behaves differentiates her from the rest of her classmates. Even though her husband does not approve of her studies and that most students are demeaning towards her‚ she is determined
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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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Text A is an extract from Educating Rita‚ a play by Willy Russell‚ which immediately highlights the fact that this text is crafted speech‚ meaning it will show a lack of spontaneous utterances‚ as Russell will have used specific lexis to add to the emotive aspect of his play. The piece is set in a northern university‚ which conveys there is sociolect‚ such a ‘y’’ in the play. With the participants both being educated‚ as we know Frank is a middle-aged lecturer while Rita is his Open University Student
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EDUCATING RITA At the very beginning of the movie it seem like Dr. Bryant did really want to teach any one. Because he told his literature class that the sun was shining and they should be making love. But if you’ll a professor its your job to teach your students regardless if you want to or not. You cant let your personal problems affect your job. Dr. Bryant didn’t want to teach at the begining . He said it was because of the hours of the university. But Rita demanded that
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