Beginning with Great expectations, in chapter one Dickens introduces us to ‘Pip’ by using repetition, imagery and symbolism. On the surface, the audience may notice repetition of Pip’s name which communicates his character to the audience in the quote “So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip”. This creates a playful, child-like tone as it emphasises a simple style of speaking which is normally reserved for children or less developed speakers. Also, the imagery of a Pip, or seed, is implanted into the readers minds as they first meet this character which may cause the reader to associate Pip with being timid, or other connotations of the word ‘small’ (as a pip). However, a pip may also represent other parts to Pip’s personality as …show more content…
Thus, Russel is using a rhetorical question to demonstrate the character’s personalities. Not only this, but by placing two character defining statements/questions so closely together the relationship and connection between Frank and Rita is able to be communicated to the audience. For such a short section of Act one scene one, Russel has arguably summed up the characters before their development – Frank’s sarcastic and melancholy personality and Rita’s naivety and …show more content…
The dress he gives Rita is a symbol of accepting Rita’s journey – even if Frank doesn’t agree with it which can be assumed by his lack of enthusiasm. In a previous scene Rita describes buying a dress as a form of distraction of her desire to step outside social norms “I'd just play another record or buy another dress an' stop worryin”. From this, Russel may be showing that Frank is trying to send a message to Rita – he may be trying to tell Rita that she is still the same at heart despite being more educated. At first glance this may come across as a bad intention as it implies Frank isn’t acknowledging her growth, however Frank may be saying that Rita has always had the tools necessary to grow and that being educated is an illusion to prevent her from doing
In Act 2 scene 1 of Educating Rita, Rita walks into Frank’s study with second-hand clothes. The audience knows that she has a particular idea about clothes when in Act 1 scene 1, she says 'I won’t be buying any new clothes til I am an educated woman'. This shows that she is in a new phase in her life, but the change is not complete. The dramatic device and sc...
Throughout the novel, Pip goes through a lot of events that transforms him as a person. At the start of the novel, Pip, an uneducated and naïve little boy, does not care about social class and is happy with what he has. But as he grows, he meets people from both social classes, who change his views and cause him to think things such as: “…deeply revolving that I was a common labouring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen in a despicable habit of calling knaves jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night; and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way,” (Page 67). This alludes to the Garden of Eden, where the snake influenced Eve to eat the apple and caused her and Adam their downfall. However, in Great Expectations, the snake would be Estella, who influences Pip to change his views and makes him believe that money and social class are everything. Dickens also uses diction such as “common labouring-boy”, “hands were coarse”, boots were thick”, “despicable habit”, and “ignorant”, to show that Pip thinks it is a bad thing to belong from an uneducated family. However, as he grows and goes through many experiences and events, he becomes aware of what he ...
In Act One, Scene One when Rita is first introduced, she’s a hairdresser and part of the working class. Russell introduced Rita as an audacious, ambitious but egoistic character. She isn’t scared to express her opinion, which generally amuses the audience, such as when she describes her opinion on the painting in Frank’s office she interprets it differently to what majority of the population would. The reason for her different interpretation is that she’s not educated to the degree that she would be familiar with that style of painting, this also becomes obvious when Frank and Rita discuss challenging death and disease: Rita refers to a poem that people in her class are more likely to read (later she describes this kind of poetry as ‘the sort of poetry you can understand’ and assumes that Frank won‘t like it as it’s simple and doesn’t have any hidden meanings) when Frank thought she was referring to a more sophisticated poem by Dylan Thomas. Throughout the scene we learn that Rita wants to understand ‘everything’ so she can enjoy things like ballet or opera, and that’s the reason why she enrolled on the course in the first place. She explains that she didn’t believe the University would accept her and the audience can see that she’s scared of what it might mean.
In the beginning of the play, Rita is introduced as a talkative woman who is very capable of expressing her thoughts in a straightforward fashion. Based on Rita’s casual dialect and her lack of discipline, it is clear that she has had limited education prior to this encounter. On the contrary, Frank is a “bona fide lecturer” who is knowledgeable in his field of study. (4) Ironically, Frank is very dissatisfied with his occupation, and the same negligent attitude can be found in Rita’s personality. (16) Their relationship flourishes immediately because of this similarity, establishing a welcoming environment for Rita. The office becomes Rita’s sanctuary as she slowly reveals her lack of confidence. Rita expresses her disbelief when she received her acceptance notice. In Rita’s mind, Open University must be an inferior college and they must have lacked applications this year. (4) For Rita, if it were any other tutor, she would have “packed in” and left. (9) Frank is the reaso...
Also with Frank, who is outside his own room, Russell shows him as a. very drunk, vulgar individual, “Sod them, no fuck them fuck them eh. Rita.” Firstly, this shows the main role reversal of Rita and Frank. Rita has become a highly educated character while Frank has become a common abusive job. So by this the audience would be disappointed in Frank is a professor that is thought upon as polite, well mannered.
With Rita she is shown as a boisterous person. This is clearly exposed with the words “Bleed’n…You wanna get it fixed” as these words are commanding techniques and it shows to the audience in a short amount of time that Rita is in control. This would shock them as Rita is speaking improperly towards the teacher. Also with “I think your marvellous…you’re the first breath of fresh air that has been in this room for ages.” Russell now presents Frank as a flirtatious person who is attempting to chat up Rita.
Firstly, the title of Charles Dickens’ work, Great Expectations, directly suggests the idea of a process of anticipation, maturation, and self-discovery through experience as Pip moves from childhood to adulthood. Charles Dickens begins the development of his character Pip as an innocent, unsophisticated orphan boy. Looking at his parent’s tombstone, Pip draws the conclusion: “the shape of the letters on my father’s gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair” (1). Here, Pip is in a sense self-taught. He does not have much communication with his sister Mrs. Joe Gargery (who adopted him) about the background and history of his parents; in fact, they do not talk much at all about any...
Other signs of Frank´s feelings towards Rita are given in scene 2 of act . She has been late for the lesson and Frank realizes that she changed her way of talking, is trying to talk and act in a more sophisticated manner. He is shocked by this development. There is also a touch of jealousy in this scene. Rita has been telling him about her conversation with other students particularly with one of them named Tyson/Tiger.
Changes in Rita and Frank in Acts One and Two. Nicola White The ways in which Russell portrays the changes and developments in the characters of Rita and Frank in Act 1 scene 1 and Act 2 scene 1 of Educating Rita. The play ‘Educating Rita’ written by Willy Russell explores the life of a narrator of Rita, a twenty-six year old woman from a working class background.
Rita's education goes far beyond just reading and responding to books however. When she first comes to the university she is impressed and even a little intimidated by the intelligent people she sees around her. By the end of the play she is able to tell them when they are speaking nonsense and join in their conversations as an equal. Success in her literature course has thus given her greater confidence in the wider world.
This immediately shows the difference between the two characters, how Rita is self confident and how Frank is a bit shocked at this kind of behaviour and it’s the kind of thing he wouldn’t expect from a university student. But these differences change throughout the play Rit...
The Treatment of the Theme of Childhood in Great Expectations In this novel Dickens shows the treatment of childhood in many ways. and through many of the characters. In the opening few chapters of the novel Dickens shows his opinions of childhood through Philip Pirrip, otherwise known as Pip. Pip is first seen in a graveyard on his own reading the tombstones of his other family members who he never knew.
Charles Dickens utilizes his life for inspiration for the protagonist Pip in his novel Great Expectations. They both struggle with their social standing. Dickens loved plays and theatre and therefore incorporated them into Pip’s life. Dickens died happy in the middle class and Pip died happy in the middle class. The connection Dickens makes with his life to Pip’s life is undeniable. If readers understand Dickens and his upbringing then readers can understand how and why he created Pip’s upbringing. Charles Dickens’ life, full of highs and lows, mirrors that of Pip’s life. Their lives began the same and ended the same. To understand the difficulty of Dickens’ childhood is to understand why his writing focuses on the English social structure. Dickens’ life revolved around social standing. He was born in the lower class but wasn’t miserable. After his father fell into tremendous debt he was forced into work at a young age. He had to work his way to a higher social standing. Because of Dicken’s constant fighting of class the English social structure is buried beneath the surface in nearly all of his writings. In Great Expectations Pip’s life mirrors Dickens’ in the start of low class and the rise to a comfortable life. Fortunately for Dickens, he does not fall again as Pip does. However, Pip and Dickens both end up in a stable social standing.
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens is a fascinating tale of love and fortune. The main character, Pip, is a dynamic character who undergoes many changes through the course of the book. Throughout this analysis the character, Pip will be identified and his gradual change through the story will be surveyed.
As a bildungsroman, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations presents the growth and development of Philip Pirrip, better known as Pip. Pip is both the main character in the story and the narrator, telling his tale many years after the events take place. Pip goes from being a young boy living in poverty in the marsh country of Kent, to being a gentleman of high status in London. Pip’s growth and maturation in Great Expectations lead him to realize that social status is in no way related to one’s real character.