“ If you want to change, y’ have to do it from the inside, don’t y’? Know like im doin” declares Rita in act 1 scene 1. How does the playwright show the changes in Rita, and in her tutor Frank, in two key scenes of the play (1.6 and 2.3)
"Educating Rita" displays the major changes that occur in the main character, an initially narrow minded, outspoken and socially naïve Liverpudlian trapped by her working class life. Rita thinks an increase in intelligence and worldly knowledge will change this, and set her "free". She strives to change classes, and although is different from her working class peers, she still isn't ready to be accepted as middle class. She aims to reach her goal through an Open University course, yet naively thinks
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As she cannot express herself with words, she involuntarily expresses them on her face, or with gestures, unable to mask her emotions. The topics she mentions show a lot about her personality, she frequently refers to pornographic books that she has read, and a painting on the wall that she sees as "erotic". She believes that by talking about the novels she has read and the authors she knows she will make a good impression on Frank, showing him how well read she is. She doesn't realise that this is portraying quite the opposite, and that an understanding of fine literature and art is yet to be achieved.
When she enters his office, Rita treats Frank in a very informal way, almost as if he is an old friend she hasn't seen for a while. She asks quite a few personal questions, including some about Frank's relationship with his girlfriend Julia. She shows how observant she is, carefully taking in everything around her, including the painting hanging on the wall that Frank says he hasn't looked at for years. She doesn't realise that some topics are not very polite to talk about, especially with a new tutor in a formal interview. Instead, as soon she sees the picture, she immediately asks Frank, "Do you think it's erotic?" She also frequently uses inappropriate words and comments, saying, "Look at those tits!"
She discusses many topics as soon as she arrives, not only because they interest
Change is inevitable. Many humans fight it while others greet it with open arms and smiling faces. Most people change because of things that happen around, or to them. Negative or positive, the actions can dictate whether the individual changes for the worse or for the better. Reverend Hale in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is the perfect example of this. He changes drastically, yet gradually, throughout the entire play. Hale progresses from conceited due to his abilities, to hesitant because of the great negative impact the witch trials are beginning to hold, and finally, he becomes regretful because of his ignorance and the actions it caused.
Clarisse is always doing something new and try ping to discover new things around her. "I guess it's the last of the dandelions this year. I didn't think I'd find one on the lawn this late. Have you ever heard of rubbing it under your chin? Look." She touched her chin with the flower, laughing."..."Why?""If it rubs off, it means I'm in love. Has it?"He could hardly do anything else but look."Well?" she said."You're yellow under there.""Fine! Let's try YOU now."..." (22)Montag takes interest to her discovers and try's them for himself. Montag will later take affect to her trying to discover new things such as books and going against society and read them. She effected not only Montag as a person but his personality.
The writer composes the story from the perspective of an analyst. She alludes to occasions later on, facts, and information that no character could have known in the setting of the story. Incorporated into the content are genuine quotes said or composed by the general population she expounds on, including the primary character. She utilizes an extremely objective voice, giving successive analysis of distinctive individuals' outlook and continually alluding to insights to demonstrate her point. Since the book does not focus on the point of view of any single character, it peruses more like a news article than a story, which frequently exhausting its groups of readers. Accordingly, Hillenbrand's written work style once in a while obstructs the correspondence of her thoughts because she regularly includes actualities, quotes and investigation in the book; it usually bores audience on the grounds that it peruses more like a news article instead of a
indeed a person who has a lot to say and Frank listens and responds to
She has been confined to the former nursery in her family's colonial mansion to cure her of hysterical tendencies, a medical condition she was diagnosed with after the birth of her son (Gilman 1997: 1f.). The woman confides in her secret journal how her contact with the outside world has become strictly limited on account of her Doctor's recommendations, and how the treatment forces her to spend her days in a barely furnished room with only her own mind and the objects around her as companions (Gilman 1997: 1f.). One of the main objects she actively engages with during this period of isolation, other than the nailed down bed and her secret journal, is the old yellow wallpaper covering the walls around her (Gilman 1997: 1f.). While the woman's condition worsens gradually over the course of the entries she makes in her secret journal, her growing isolation and inactivity make her start to see movement in the patterns and holes of the old wallpaper (Teichler 1984: 61, Gilman 1997: 1f.). The character becomes absorbed by what she thinks she sees, and begins to directly interact with the things she sees in the paper, until she rips the paper to shreds, and violently frees what she sees, and subsequently, also herself from captivity (Teichler 1984: 61, Gilman 1997:
People can change in substantial ways when they encounter distressing events. Views and personalities can change as new matters come to light and are experienced. In books, many authors can expertly show a character’s development and change. A prime example of this is in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Reverend Hale, a character in The Crucible, undergoes a dramatic and significant character development and change throughout the plot, which consists of being humbled because of new information and events, which changes him as a person to one who is more aware and logical.
In the play written by Arthur Miller, one of the characters, Reverend Hale, goes through a transformation from the beginning, to the end of the play. He changes from a know-it-all, arrogant person to an open minded human being, who wants nothing but the truth.
Changes by Reverend Hale In the play The Crucible, Reverend Hale undergoes many changes over the course of the play. We as the reader's experience this from the introduction of the character to the end of the play. Reverend Hale is one of the main characters that we see throughout the play. We also get to see the trials through his own eyes. Hale relies on his intellect in the beginning of the play.
Lack of communication leads to much dysfunction. Ordinary People based on the book by Judith Guest revolves around the Jarrett family and their efforts to communicate. Conrad Jarrett, the son of Calvin and Beth Jarrett, struggles with PTSD and survivor’s guilt after the death of his brother in a boating accident. Additionally, Beth, who favored her older son, has isolated herself from Conrad. She distances herself emotionally, whilst trying to maintain the family’s idealistic reputation.
People are expected to change over a period of time, whether it's their personality or style. Different events that comes around changes people, sometimes for good or bad. The play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an example of this. Miller writes about a ridiculous court trial that changes many characters in a small town. This ludicrous event causes many to have trepidation and it leads to lie after lie. Mary Warren, a character with momentary parts in the play is an example of a changing character due the wicked witch trial events in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller.
For example, Kerewin feels she has “no need of people, because she was self-fulfilling” (9). Joe, however, interprets her solitary existence in a different light through his first-person contemplations: “She is lonely…she is an outsider, like me” (124). Thus, the same action—Kerewin’s holing herself away in her Tower—carries multiple meanings, emphasizing Kerewin’s dual emotions in doing so—the one part she acknowledges herself, and the other which she does not, and which is evident only through the second point of view. The limitations of a single viewpoint are even addressed within the novel— “Why should I feel sad?…She doesn’t know” (312)—indicating that another character’s insight might be necessary to explain the intricacies of personality which are often hidden in a single viewpoint, in which a character seeks to hide the pieces of his or her personality which he or she refuses to
She recalls a perfume advertisement featuring a flawless young woman with glowing red hair lying languorously in bed while her lover lusts over her: “the woman gazes up at him not required to smile in invitation, for she herself is the invitation, naked…” (32). She obsesses over this advertisement, to the point where she objectifies the woman as a collection of body parts: “Her hair, her eyes, her lips…What is that fragrance?” (86). She spends prolonged amounts of time with magazines to the point of memorization, suggesting that she objectifies herself as a collection of body parts existent for male pleasure and attention. Kelly refers to herself in her thoughts as “Kelly Kelleher,” manifesting her self-objectification by referring to herself in the third person instead of first. Her self-objectification leads to various negative results. She criticizes “her thin fair skin that was too thin, too fair…and acne, near-invisible but gritty little pimples at her hairline” (14). She jealously admires Buffy, who has flawless skin, and a lover (51). After G—, Kelly developed an eating disorder “to punish herself for having loved a man more than the man seemed to have loved her” (51). Kelly 's self-objectification leads her crave being desired, loved, and protected by the Senator, whom she finds handsome even though he is “beginning to go soft in the gut” (90). Caught like the swamp’s mosquitos in a frenzied buzz of self-objectification, Kelly is
Her character is different from most in the play. She displays compassion, modesty, and care - - the exact opposite of wit. Her caring nature makes her ask Vivian a personal question.
Educating Rita tells a story of a 26-year-old married hairdresser, Rita, who decided to get education by taking a course in English literature from the Open University. Through the development of the relationship between Rita and her alcoholic and cynical tutor, Frank, this story brings up many concepts in adult development and education. After watching the movie, I have a further understanding of the concepts of changes, motivation to learn, freedom, and stability.
have taken place in Rita’s life since we last saw her, in the play we