and context. Willy Russell’s educating Rita explores the transitions of the characters Rita and Frank through their intellectual and emotional growth as people through the overcoming of challenges‚ leading to a change in attitude‚ views‚ and ideas. Shrinking women composed by Lily Myers showcases her transition into a new phase of her life through her observation of gender expectations and stereotypes present in society that are subconsciously
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life and they need to take their place in society. I will be talking about the play educating Rita by Willy Russel and relating it to the movie pretty woman by Garry marshal. In educating Rita‚ Rita wants to change. She is being pressured by her husband Denny‚ to stay the same “he’s blind‚ he doesn’t want to see”. He’s happy living in the same old suburb watching the same old BBC programs‚ whereas Rita wants to discover herself. This discovery comes in the form of education. She wants to learn
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inherent part of moving ‘into the world’. Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita‚ shows us that attitude is important for change and growing ‘into the world’. The new experiences can be problematic but it’s up to the individual to prevail and conquer. It demonstrates to us that change involves taking risks leading to positive consequences of change. Opening the door provides new experiences for growth and change just like Rita opening the door to her lessons provides her the opportunity to absorb
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Willy Russel’s 1985 play Educating Rita is a story of a women’s struggle escape her repetitive boring working class life and move into a wider‚ educated world. Russel uses characters‚ settings and many techniques to effectively explore this potentially difficult topic in an interesting and entertaining way. ‘Into the world’ is a potentially difficult topic in that it involves person‚ life-changing events that may become hard for the audience to relate to or understand. Russel avoids these problems
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Into The World Essay Educating Rita by Willy Russel is a play that is centrally based upon the main character‚ Rita‚ moving from one world to another‚ hence ‘Into the World’. Through exploring other related texts‚ various ideas and themes become present. The novel ‘The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath’ by Philip Carlo‚ the movie ‘Bend it like Beckham’ and the song ‘Move on Up’ by Curtis Mayfield explore the growth and experiences of each protagonist in their transition from one world to another
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Educating Rita An exploration through a variety of texts that deal with ‘aspects of growing up and transitions into new phrases of an individual’s life’. Connection to: Into the World * Rita moves from an ‘uneducated’ working class life to a tertiary educated life. * It is this transition with its positives and negatives that is to be focused upon. Positives of Transition * Discovery & Enlightenment: Rita discovers a new world far removed from her ‘restrictive’ world as a wife and
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CASE ANALYSIS Dove: Evolution of a brand INTRODUCTION Unilever’s Dove is one of the leading companies in the health and beauty industry. Dove has launched an advertising campaign named “The Campaign for Real Beauty” to general the attention of the public in order to change the traditional definition of beauty and improve their brand awareness. Dove took the advantages of new social media by uploading the advertisements on YouTube and allowed people to give comments on the “Real Beauty” story
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Adam J. Greenberg English 105 7/23/2007 The Morning Star Rita Dove’s poem Daystar really gives the reader a lot to think about. At first‚ we learn about a woman who seems to be under a lot of stress‚ some sleeping children and a man that takes what he desires from the woman. Through the use of specific words and phrases the reader is intended to make initial assumptions about the characters. However‚ after reading the poem a few more times‚ evaluating and scrutinizing the words and phrases‚
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at certain issues or points relating into the world. What we don’t realise in the 21st century is that year 12 students studying supplementary material in standard English may find it difficult to understand and come to terms with it. ‘Educating Rita’ was voted ‘Best Comedy of the year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. By 1983 it had risen to be the fourth most popular play on the British stage. Perhaps Willy Russell’s attitude towards his work might partly explain his appeal
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Educating Rita Quotation Act one Scene 1 1. Rita: “Do you get a lot of students like me?” Frank: “Not exactly‚ no...” 2. Rita: “You work for the ordinary university‚ don’t y’? With the real students.” 3. Rita: “If I pack the course in I’ll post it to y’.” 4. Rita: “But if you want change y’ have to do it from the inside.” 5. Frank: “I think you’re the first breath of air that’s been in this room for years.” 6. Frank: “I think you’re marvellous
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