Comparing the Opening Scene of Educating Rita to the Opening Scene of Pygmalion These plays revolve around the theme of an upper class, well-educated man transforming a lower class woman into someone like himself. One is Pygmalion; a play set in the time when there was a very distinct class system and members of different classes avoided each other as much as possible. Educating Rita is set much more recently, when the classes mingled much more frequently and when the class system was much less distinct. However, the differences between Frank and Rita are still very apparent. Both of these are situations which could prove to be quite comical because of the culture clash. I am going to compare the opening scenes and explore the characterisation of the main characters. In both plays, the teachers are reluctant to teach their pupils. Higgins is reluctant at the beginning of the scene to teach Liza, but towards the end, when he gets more excited about the challenge, he really wants to. This is different to Educating Rita, in which Frank is willing to teach Rita at the beginning of the scene, because he needs the money, but as he learns more and more about her, he becomes more and more reluctant. He realises that Rita wants to be more like him, but he doesn't like what he is. He sees something in her that perhaps he wishes he was, or had. He realises that it isn't that great being an upper-middle class intellectual, and he doesn't believe that it is worth the effort that Rita has to go through to be one. This is apparent later on in the play, in Act II Scene iv: RITA I've got a room full of books. I know what clothes to wear, what ... ... middle of paper ... ...n comes into a man's office and asks him to teach her. In both, he is reluctant to do so, and she says that she might change her mind, and in both, the lessons are eventually agreed upon. The main difference is how the teacher views himself and how the student views him. Frank is quite self-critical and sees his middle-class existence as bleak whereas Higgins is very arrogant and content with his upper-class superiority. In both plays, you get the feeling that because the student goes to the teacher, she looks up to him. She knows he can change her for the better. Although both plays revolve around the same theme - a man from a superior class educating a younger woman from a lower one - there are obvious differences between them. At least some of these are due to the different time periods in which the plays are set.
whatever he does not want her to do. Throughout her twenty years of life with
I think this applies to both of the openings of the films as in the
decide what he is going to do about it. He cannot decide what woman to
same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her own thoughts.
to him; and that he can give and take as he pleases. Therefore, she's willing to accept the
him, she was not strong enough before but now it is she that needs him.
Lizzie was observed in the library making noise and asked one of the staff members if they have toys in the library and stated, “I am bored its nothing here to do, but look at books.”
Over centuries of children have been enjoying the classic fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. The fanciful plots and the vivid details allow children to be entranced by characters and adventures that can only be found in these stories. One of the most beloved fairy tales, which both the Perrault and the Grimms have their own separate versions of, is Cinderella. Cinderella is able to show how both versions are able to feed off the same plots while personifying the century and social economic situation in which they have lived.
agree with the actions she performs and his guilt overwhelms him. The guilt he feels pushes him to do
feels; he just imposes his ways on her and expects her to go along with it.
Although Rita stands in contrast to Eliza, they share so many similarities that one could support the statement that "Rita is a modern day Eliza".
does so she can break his heart and the pain will be even worse. This
In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," the main character is a woman who has been controlled and conformed to the norms of society. Louise Mallard has apparently given her entire life to assuring her husband's happiness while forfeiting her own. This truth is also apparent in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. In this story, Nora Helmer has also given her life to a man who has very little concern for her feelings or beliefs. Both of these characters live very lonely lives, and both have a desire to find out who they really are and also what they are capable of becoming. Although the characters of Nora and Louise are very much alike in many ways, their personalities differ greatly when it comes to making decisions regarding the direction of their lives.
...n could change now knowing that his ex is happy and he could be the same.
When there is a difference in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory there is a similarity in the movie “Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory”. To begin, the book has many similarities. Like, they have the same three meal gun. Second, the text has the same Chocolate room as the movie. Finally, Charlie is the same in the way he had a poor family.Although in the movie there are many differences. For example, in the film there are different candies like the square candies that look round and the everlasting gobstopper. Also, the movie had the marshmallow pillow room and the movie had a signature room. Finally, the movie had two gifts and the book only had one. This is how the book Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and the movie “Willy Wonka