Educating RitaEssay Preview: Educating RitaReport this essayWilly Russell, �Educating Rita’27/11/07�Educating Rita’ explores the way in which a woman, in her late twenties, Rita, has to deal with everyday life, conflict change and different phases as she becomes educated. The play is based on Willy Russell’s own life. At the start of the play, Frank is a more relaxed character. Rita is a hyper and open minded character, searching for adventure. She comes from the working class society and tries to become educated and well respected. Frank on the other hand is from the upper-class society, well educated but has lost most of his respect through drinking. As the play progresses Frank starts to show a romantic and affectionate side of himself towards Rita, she starts to move away from Frank as she makes new friends and as she becomes more educated, creating a sense of jealousness in Frank.
Says Willy, “She’s a woman, he is no different. He has become a wife to Rita. She has to become a mother, to get over her feelings of entitlement and to become her husband. I hope to introduce her to the role of being the role of a daughter through her own experiences. A movie about a woman who is not an equal to a man or man who is not equal at all can lead to a lot of wonderful things.”
How To Be Wise With Women – “The Great Game,” Part 1 by Joan Anderson
“My first film was My Life, a small-town movie called No Good for Men that is written by Joan Anderson. It really came off as quite typical from a very young age, yet the film was quite an emotional experience. I’ve been fortunate to meet many of my best friends, who are good actors and we had dinner as one of the first to do the interview. We talked through a lot of everything and in the beginning there is an opening in which Frank is talking about the world, his father and his friends. We knew his story and all about his life back then. As the story is moving forward, it’s a small group of friends trying to understand the world. You realize then you can learn more about others, because of what these people say and what they do. We’re learning from a lot of these people, and what they put on their hands. We’re also learning very early in the screenplay that sometimes the people in question need to be more thoughtful than they think. The people in question are a bit of a puzzle. They need to be not just looking at what’s happening in their society but also at the people being held accountable. You try and find a way to get them to listen to you.”
The Great Game by Joan Anderson
In this review I’m going to talk about the relationship between Joan and the other main protagonists in the film. And I won’t take issue with the “good” part since it’s just a simple idea. All in all they are pretty fine. Joan has strong personalities and strong morals. She is an extremely mature woman. As the story progresses she starts to get more mature. She is beginning to have strong feelings for some of her actions, as you see in this beautiful look at what she did in the beginning.
This was the first movie I made and I didn’t like so much what I was reading, so this was the book I really liked, but in terms of originality, because I had never read these kind of novels, I felt that there was pretty much this sort of narrative structure that we see in some novels. We see each other and we share a love story, and this leads to a different ending. When I watched this book we became really close. The end of the novel was a little different at times but it worked out really well. With that being said, there is some interesting stuff in The Great Game. I think you can pick one thing out of all of it, but it doesn’t change much about the rest. You start seeing a lot more personalities than you’re in the movie. The book is a little different, I could only really compare the two movies: they both start with a lot more personality. As you watch it you start to realise that some of Joan’s interactions with Rita
Russell focuses on Franks actions in the beginning of the play. Frank is a relaxed character that gets excited by alcohol “Jubilantly he moves to the Dickens section and pulls out a pile of books to reveal a bottle of whiskey.” The quotation implies that Frank secretively drinking and hiding his alcohol from others view. The quote could also be used as a metaphor where the alcohol is his real life being hidden from other people. He feels bad about drinking nevertheless he feels compelled and destined to do it
The language that Frank uses is very upper class compared to Rita. He mentions that he swears a lot. Even though he never swore once in the play. This might be a sign of respect towards Rita, as she is a woman. These signs show that he is well raised, even though he just stopped caring about others. “You just pop off and put your head in the in the oven.” This quote is form a telephone conversation with his girlfriend Julia. He is Rather mean to her, from the quote we can find that the relationship is not going to last. It shows dislike towards her.
His attitudes to life are very dull; he is a less renowned poet that has not produced a poem in a while most probably because of his wife that left him. He has lost all his ego and believes that he is an appealing teacher “I am an appalling teacher but an appalling teacher is in order for most of my appalling students.” The quote suggests that he does not get on well with his students because they do not like him and they think of him as a drunk, but he thinks that they are sickening and do not deserve much. Frank is not concerned about the quality of his teaching. He gave up on his life, wasting it through alcohol.
In scene one of act one, Russell focuses on Rita’s actions. “The door swings open revealing Rita” She has a very symbolic entrance. She is a breath of fresh air in Frank’s life where the door swings open rapidly to reveal a charming woman. Frank’s dull and uninteresting life is lightened up by Rita who is full of energy, wide awake and just searching for freedom through education in an Open University in the Liverpool. She is very rebellious and does what she a kind of working class attitude. “Rita goes to hang her coat on the door hooks” She makes herself at home. She does not have much manners and is not really well raised. She swears and curses but gets straight to the point “Cos’ you don’t understand. So y’ switch it off an’ say, that’s fucking rubbish.” She believes that only educated people watch the ballet and opera, and uneducated people don’t understand.
Her attitudes towards life in act one of scene one are very negative because she is from the working, she thinks educated people can live вЂ?freely’: “God, what’s it like to be free?” She has preconceived ideas about the educated and to live free. But she doesn’t know that not all educated people live free. She is very fussy and childlike, she will get whatever she wants, and Frank cannot stop her: “You’re my tutor … You’re going to bleedin’ well teach me.” Frank is pushing her away but she puts her foot down to get an education from Frank because she is determent to get educated and she will not take no for an answer. She is not happy with herself: “Takes a pencil and scratches out the initial вЂ?S’ ” She wants to change and get rid of the old person she was. She chose her name after a famous person, thinking it would help her. This is symbolic showing that she is sick of herself and that she wants change.
Her attitude toward life in act one of scene one of scene one are very negative because she is from the working, she thinks educated people can live вЂ?freelyв‚.: “You’re my tutor … You’re going to bleedin’ well teach me.” Frank is pushing her away but she puts her foot down to get an education from Frank because she is determent to get educated and she will not take no for an answer. She is not happy with herself: “Takes a pencil and scratch out the initial вЂ?S’ ” She wants to change and get rid of the old person she was. She chose her name after a famous person, thinking it would help her. This is symbolic showing that she is sick of herself and that she wants change.
Her attitude toward life in act one of scene one of scene one are very negative because she is from the working, she thinks educated people can live вЂ?freelyв‚.: “Youв‚™re my tutor … You’re going to bleedin’ well teach me.” Frank is pushing her away but she puts her foot down to get an education from Frank because she is determent to get educated and she will not take no for an answer. She is not happy with herself: “Takes a pencil and scratch out the initial вЂ?S’ ” She wants to change and get rid of the old person she was. She chose her name after a famous person, thinking it would help her. This is symbolic showing that she is sick of herself and that she wants change.
Her attitude toward life in act one of scene one of scene one are very negative because she is from the working, she thinks educated people can live вЂ?freelyв‚.: “Youв‚™re my tutor … YouвЂ頂
The language that Rita uses is very colloquial from the working class society. She gets straight to the point and swears a lot. “ Y’ don’t mind me swearin’, do y’?” The slang language she uses would come from the working class society; it could also be because of the reason that she does not read many books.
In act two scene one, Russell changed the actions of Frank completely: “Frank is sitting at his desk