Educating Rita: Society‚ Education and Self-Reflection Usa Padgate * Abstract Educating Rita is a play written by Willy Russell‚ an English playwright from Liverpool. It was voted ‘Best Comedy of the Year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. By 1983 it had risen to be the fourth most popular play on the British stage. In the same year it was transformed into a film and won the BAFTA Best Film Award as well as Academy Award nominations‚ proving its appeal and popularity
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Into The World – ’Educating Rita’ Will Russell “Moving into an unfamiliar world will always be accompanied by challenges but such transitions create an environment for personal growth” People encounter different ways in which they encounter new stages of experience that bring about change and growth in their life‚ these aspects of personal growth and transitions into the the world or new phases of an individuals life is clearly evident in Willy Russell’s text ’Educating Rita’ and the two related
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Educating Rita- INTO THE WORLD Remember T.E.E Quotes Link both play and podcast together Introduction Thesis Include Educating Rita‚ 1985‚ Willy Russell Frank and Rita’s worlds are challenged by each other Talk about the podcast and how it links to ‘into the world’ Body one- Edu Rita Excel book! 1 quote from Rita 1 quote from Frank Metaphor “ I’m comin in‚ aren’t I? its that stupid bleedin handle on the door. You wanna get it fixed!”. This quote is important as it reflects
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In Willy Russel’s play "Educating Rita‚" some marks of a love story are to be noticed between both characters. They each show marks of affection for each other. The main aspect of a love story is to have two characters of opposite sex‚ being attracted to one another. The attraction of two people especially deals with having a relationship. In "Educating Rita‚" this is not the case because only the male character is attracted to the female. In a love story‚ both characters are
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ducating rita How does Willy Russell show change in the main character in Educating Rita? Educating Rita is a drama which was first published as a play in 1983‚ written by Willy Russell; subsequently‚ it was made into a film which quickly became a box-office hit. The play consists of a particular theme (education) and it explores the processes that inflict change upon the main character Rita. The content of the storyline was considered to be quite controversial and diverse for it’s time
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How does the opening scene of ‘Educating Rita’ prepare the audience for the rest of the play? Willy Russell; the author of educating Rita was born in Whinston which is just outside Liverpool. When he was at five years old he moved to Knowsley. He went to a school just down the road from his Grandmas grocer. He took gardening up as a hobby and played football regularly. At eleven years old he went to a secondary school in Huyton. Then a year later he moved to Rainford School‚ when he was there
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Scene I: Close up of Frank in his office in Australia (The lights come up on Frank seated in the swivel chair at the desk and he smiles as he opens his video message) G’day Rita‚I ‘m Frank. Time has gone by so quickly and I have been in Australia for one year already. I have missed you so much. How have you been? Thank you for your encouragement. Now I am continuing to write poems using the pen you gave to me. I believe that I need to respect myself and live up to your expectations. I work at
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Educating Rita Educating Rita By Armstrong Chikava Educating Rita written Willy Russel is a great play with a good dialogue. The play focuses on only two characters‚ Rita and her teacher Frank. Personally I like Rita’s personality even though I couldn’t really relate to her at all. Rita is portrayed as a working class woman but she wants to change herself and her class‚ it appears that she isn’t satisfied with who she is. During the play‚ she tries to break away from her social
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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
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Educating Rita Essay In this essay I am going to talk about act 1 scene 1 from the play Educating Rita which was written by novelist Willy Russell. Willy Russell was born in 1947‚ Whiston‚ Liverpool. Willy comes from a working class background. And upon leaving school at the age of 15 with one O-level in English‚ he became a ladies hairdresser for 6 years and ran his own salon‚ Which he said helped him become a good listener. He then had numerous jobs‚ including writing songs that he preformed
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