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Characters and Themes in Educating Rita GCSE Coursework: In what ways is Act 1 Scene 1 of “Educating Rita” a good introduction to the play’s main characters and themes? Do you think Willy Russell has made his opening dramatic and entertaining? “I’m coming in aren’t I? It’s that stupid bleedin’ handle on the door!” is not the way in which we would expect a new university student to talk to a lecture she had never meet before, but as we later find out, Rita, is not a stereotypical student and

“THE STRUGGLES OF TRANSITIONS ARE WORTH THE EFFORT.” In todays issue, we will be reviewing Willy Russell’s 1980 play “Educating Rita”. Rita grew up in a lower class family in England. Here, she worked as a hairdresser before being compelled to change her future. She began taking up a course in literature with none other than Dr. Frank Bryant, the drunken mess of the Open University. In comparison, we will also be addressing Alan Jay Lerner’s 1964 musical, “My Fair Lady”, which follows Eliza Doolittle’s

Rita Dove was born August 28, 1952. She was born in Arkon, Ohio. Her spouse was Fred Viebahn, her mother was name Elvira Hord, her father was Ray Dove, and their beautiful daughters name was Aviva Dove-Viebahn. She has officially started everything she loves to do and will continue to do what she loves to do, she really enjoys making poetry and quotes. This part is gonna be telling you how Rita Dove started her career, Rita Dove was an African American poet. She loved poetry and music from a very

others. Transitions are clearly demonstrated in the play Educating Rita (1991), by Willy Russell, where Rita's growth and change comes about with her new knowledge and ideas in her social and working-class life. The Intouchable's (2011) by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano also demonstrates how new knowledge and ideas can make a change in one's life leading to a transition. Willy Russel has used transitioning in the play Educating Rita through Rita's progress and journey through Open University, which

The Effect of Summer School on Rita in Educating Rita by Willy Russell 'Of course; you don't do Blake without doing innocence and experience, do y?' When Frank explains to Rita that after summer school they will study William Blake, Rita says that she has already studied Blake and implies in such a way that she almost disgraces Frank. Before summer school Rita has only been taught Frank and has only learnt his ideas, when she gains her own confidence she then challenges

“Educating Rita” written in 1980 by Willy Russell, is a play that explores the way in which a working class Liverpudlian woman, Rita (Susan), follows the change from unhappiness to happiness. The story is a comedy, which revolves around the growing personal relationship between Rita, and her Open University Literature tutor, Dr. Frank Byrant. Russell often mocks many parts of society at a time when the play was set including education, social class and patriarchy. Rita is used to create comedy within

Changes in Rita in Act Two Scene One of Educating Rita Willy Russell was born in Whiston, near Liverpool, England, in 1947. Russell has written a string of popular, award-winning plays and musicals, but perhaps one of the most well known is Educating Rita. In this play Willy Russell is very much producing a mirror image of parts of his life. As a child and growing up he didn’t care much for school, he considered himself a kid from the ’D’ stream and a piece of factory fodder. Eventually

'The transformed character of Rita in Act 2 Scene 1 is unrecognisable from the comedic character presented to us in Act 1 Scene 1'. To what extent do you agree with this statement. Refer closely to Russell's use of Comedic anf Dramatic Devices. (You must reference to all AOs). Although Rita acknowledges that being smart is important, she shows that her change in the play is not just learning, but through her personality too. Her education helps her overcome her working class background and for her

Review of Educating Rita Educating Rita is a dramatic and comedic play about the differences in social class and education in Britain. The play takes place in the nineteen-seventies to the nineteen-eighties and is furthermore written by English playwright, lyricist, and composer William Russell. William Russell, also known as Willy Russell, was once a hairdresser himself, just like Rita. Though, today he is better known as the playwright of many successful plays, such as Shirley Valentine and Blood

The Portrayal of Metamorphosis in Educating Rita by Willy Russell In this essay, I am going to discuss the portrayal of metamorphosis in Willy Russell’s ‘Educating Rita.’ I am going to write about how the play’s two round characters, Frank and Rita, change their attitudes, confidence, lifestyle, appearance and their overall look on life throughout the course of the play. To do this, I will analyse Frank and Rita at the start of the play and then go on to comment on