Rita's Character in Willy Russell's Educating Rita First impressions are very important and Willy Russell is keen to portray Rita as an enthusiastic but common lady. In Rita's first line of the scene, we find that she speaks her mind "It's that stupid bleedin' handle on the door. You wanna get it fixed." We also find out that Rita is a strong confident character because when Frank tells Rita "I suppose I always mean to…" She tells him "Well that's no good always meaning to, is it?" This is ironic to because the student is telling the teacher what to do. "I'll bring y' the book-its great" Rita ironically offers a book to the teacher. She carries on asking all the questions all the way through the scene, even though it should be the other way around. "Very good ten out of ten…. collect a gold star" We also learn that Rita teaches Frank how to teach assonance. "I've never really looked at it like that. But yes yes you could say it means getting the rhyme wrong" In this scene we find out many things about Rita's character, she experts in things she does, she can construct an argument and she can recommend books. We also find out that Rita believes in changing the inside not the outside. "…They wanna be changed. But if y' wanna change y' have to do it from the inside don't y'?" What do we learn about Rita's School days? Rita didn't enjoy her school, she didn't learn while at school because if she did she would have to change her friends. She could have learnt but she was loyal to her friends. She conformed to low expectations, even though she knew the answer she didn't say because of her friends. " Nah, just normal y' know, borin' ripped-up books, broken glass everywhere, knives an' fights. An' that was just in the staff room. Nah they tried their best I suppose, telling us we stood a chance if we studied. "I saw this fantastic bird, all coloured it was, like dead out of
words represent the gang’s lack of language skills. This symbolizes uneducated boys talking. She does it with such vivid verse and ethnic slang that it gives this poem a unique style.
Rhymes are two or more words that have the same ending sound. Songwriters and poets often times use rhymes to help their piece flow better, or keep the audience or readers engaged. Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is filled with rhymes, with a rhyme in almost every single line: “Brando, the King and I, and the Catcher In The Rye / Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new Queen / Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye” (line 6-8). Billy Joel uses the rhymes to move from one topic to the next, and the song is even in chronological order from 1950 to 1989. The rhyme schemes of the song are end rhymes as well as perfect rhymes. On the other hand, the poem is completely free verse, or without a single rhyme. This makes the poem less artistic and harder to remain engaged and interested. In addition to rhyming, allusions are another way of displaying artistic
and help than others, and for Mrs Kay, this means she has a lot of
In the 1980s, women were thought to be the conventional uneducated house keepers of the household and throughout the play, Educating Rita; Rita is constantly battling this set image of a typical Woman in the 80s. Willy Russell has used many dramatic devices efficiently to show the different phases and changes in Rita. In so doing, there have been many impacts on the audience.
The theme of culture appears a lot in the play. One of the ways that
Educating Rita encompasses political and social commentary: Rita is an uneducated working class hairdresser, whilst Frank is a highly educated middle class professor of literature. This shows that class is clearly an issue in the play. As well as this, Willy Russell’s play is set against the backdrop of feminism, the opening of higher education with the Open University, and the civil unrest of the Toxteth riots in Liverpool. The play therefore includes political and social commentary. However, this does not necessarily mean that this is first and foremost function of the play. Educating Rita is a two-hander and has a very simplistic set as the whole play takes place in Frank’s office and the only two characters on stage are Frank and Rita,
Sarah Orne Jewett's Miss Tempy's Watchers. Sarah Orne Jewett was born in Berwick, Maine, 275 miles from Oakfield, where my grandmother lived. Jewett’s story, “Miss Tempy’s Watchers,” takes place in a small farming town in New Hampshire, yet as I read the story for the first time, I was certain it took place in the small northern Maine town, and my grandmother was a subject of the author’s study. Jewett makes use of the dialect New England is known for by following very broad rules as well as the pickiest details one might never notice unless one were looking with ultimate scrutiny or from personal experience. Jewett chose certain phrases to make her characters’ speech genuine.
He is a lazy man, bored and frustrated by his life he too does not
The question of what Rita gains in Educating Rita is quite easy to answer. What she loses is less obvious. Her intention is to gain a college education and she largely succeeds in this. On the way you could say she loses her job and her husband, but it is worth asking whether these are really losses to the person Rita, or rather Susan, becomes.
do with a bit of something different in his life and this is why he
Class is something that is stressed in the twentieth century. Class is what identified someone to something. These classes could have been money, love, having a disability and many others. In Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway there are many different types of relationships. In the novel, the reader learns that Clarissa’s husband Richard and her party planning is dominating her, as where Lucrezia’s husband, Septimus, is dominating her. The domination seen in these two ladies is love. Love is an overwhelming power that can influence someone to do something they might have not thought about all the way through, which can ultimately affect their life in the future.
Education provides unique experiences to everyone. These experiences are not depended on the individual’s personal backgrounds or social statuses. According to Jane Thompson, a scholar in education, the process of education can either be a restriction on creativity or a “practice of freedom.” In Willy Russell’s Educating Rita, the protagonist’s experience through the Open University is a practice of freedom as she is provided with the opportunities to express her thoughts and discover her own limits. There is an internal struggle within Rita as the new environment threatens to erase her past life. Rita is able to maintain her practice of freedom through the help of Frank, whom provides her with a welcoming and encouraging learning environment.
in his office to Rita. He tells her that he "sometimes get an urge to
In many cases, poems are very abrupt and awkward sounding when read or spoken aloud. A simple solution to end a poem’s awkwardness is a rhyme scheme. Many poems don’t rhyme for reasons of subject matter but to make the poem more interesting and easier to read the poet uses rhyming words. In many cases, poets use end rhyme, which is using words that rhyme in the end of the phrase or sentence of each sentence. “A Poison Tree” by William Blake is a great example of end rhyme used in poetry.
...a sense trying to solve a problem which in this case is a poem. I agree with poststructuralist views because I think that you cannot successfully solve a piece by researching the time period, author background, and so forth. The authors leave it up to our interpretations because most authors understand the concept that interpretation is no longer in their control when they write a piece. Someone who believes they could actually solve a piece of poetry and be dead on is naive because that seems like a secret we have no way of figuring out.