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Chapter 1: The moonlight danced through the bare, twisted treetops, casting playful shadows on the snowy ground below. Spotting him under the darkness of a large oak tree as she walked through the park, she smiled. He was watching and waiting for her. Coming out of the shadows, he approached her. “So you’re here at […]

Willy Russell was born in Liverpool in 1947. Russell comes from a working class background and grew up with his mother, grandmother and aunts around him, he said that this has had a big impact on his writing career, where he reflects opinions on class and women as in ‘Educating Rita’. When he left school […]

‘Educating Rita’ is a play written and set in 1985. There are two characters, Rita and Frank, though others are referred to during the course of the play. Rita is a working-class, twenty-six year old hairdresser. She has taken the decisive step of enrolling on an English Literature Course at the Open University. It was […]

This essay will consider what the strengths and the weaknesses of the proletariat are, and how Orwell shows them, including analysis of the irony used throughout the novel. The weaknesses that will be included are: their loyalty, poor memories and gullibility. The strengths that will be included are: their physical strength, they have vision and […]

Rita is a young woman who is looking to extened her education. She has a husband who is looking to start a family but Rita feels she has a gap in her life and is hoping a better education and understanding shall help her move on. She has a need to take control of the […]

This is the start of the relationship, which leads to the witty yet serious story of two opposites, written by Willy Russell. The play “Educating Rita” depicts the integration of two societies, with Rita who is a dissatisfied hairdresser, who comes to Frank (a middle-aged tutor), in search of educational enlightenment.Rita enters the play as […]

During the late seventies, Willy Russell authored Educating Rita, a play lauded with enthusiasm upon its early eighties debut. By employing humor to convey pressing issues in a time of societal instability, Russell succeeded in appealing to numerous audiences, eventually earning widespread popularity. Key to this union of comedic and solemn tones is Rita, who […]

Carol Ann Duffy has done several poems including Mrs Midas, others include Havisham and Education for Leisure. These three are distrubing poems, she uses images in the poems to help convey what she wants us to see and imagine is happening. In the case of Havisham she use a distrubing character from the Charles Dickens […]

I have chosen to write about Act 2 Scene 1. In this scene Rita has been to summer school and we notice changes in her character and her attitude. Rita is now much more educated as we can tell. I have chosen this scene because I feel it contains the most significant changes to both […]

‘Animal Farm’ is a novel written by George Orwell in the 1940s. In ‘Animal Farm’, Major, is an old white boar, who represents Carl Marx. Napoleon, who is a younger pig, represents the Russian dictator Stalin. Other animals represent the common people of Russia. ‘Animal Farm is a political allegory; this means that there is […]

Although ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ has been called boring, dull, and a sleep-aid, it remains one of the most culturally sophisticated novels of modern coursework material that has entertained people for more than 150 years. Some people automatically associate these negative adjectives when they hear mention of Dickens’ works, and I agree with them. […]

Montana 1948, a novel by Larry Watson, profoundly altered David Hayden’s life in both positive and negative ways. The book is presented from David’s viewpoint, as the son of Wesley Hayden, the sheriff of Mercer County. Numerous events etched themselves into David’s memory and impacted him deeply, beginning with the passing of Little Marie Soldier […]

George orwell’s essay a hanging is a piece of non-fiction that is emotionally provocative. It is set in burma during the 1920s and it deals with a raw eyewitness account of an execution that the author witnessed whilst serving as a police officer. He uses all of his creative genius to universalise his thoughts and […]

Once upon a Time in the West, directed by Sergio Leone, is a story of evil and vengeance (with a dose of mystery) set in the American West. As the story develops, characters are introduced who are essential to an understanding of the plots. Since there are two simultaneously developed story lines, the maturation of […]

“Educating Rita” provides a subtle social commentary on a person’s social status and ridicules the stereotyping and expectations set by society, that regard social status and gender. These expectations included that single women were expected to find a husband and when married they were expected to find a husband. As well as this, men were […]

In many novels and short stories, the setting (in terms of place, time, social/political conditions, etcetera) is a significant factor, shaping the main character(s) and determining his/her/their actions. By referring closely to one text, show how setting affects both character and action. In your answer, you must refer closely to the text and to at […]

The three stories that I will study are; The poor relations story by Charles Dickens, Twenty six men and a girl by Maxim Gorky and The unexpected by Kate Chopin. The three things do seem to have a thing in present. All the main characters seem to be pressured or are being victimised by their […]

The comedy was first produced at the Liverpool Playhouse in February 1981 and was made into a film, produced by Lewis Gilbert in 1983, starring Michael Caine (Dr. Frank Bryant) and Julie Walters (Rita White). It was revised and re-written by Willy Russell in March 2003 for the reason that it is used for examinations. […]

Throughout the “Withered Arm” the main characters: Rhoda Brook and Gertrude Lodge experience lots of tragedy, and due to this, the book makes the audience empathise with the two of them. The following paragraphs will examine the lengths and extremes of these tragic events, and therefore conclude who deserves our sympathy. Rhoda Brook is a […]

“The Rain Horse” illustrates the idea of Man being an instinctive animal more starkly than “Sunday”. But nevertheless in both of these stories, Hughes is convinced that the modern man has lost touch with the primordial side of nature. “The Rain Horse” is about Man visiting his own suppressed primitive animal nature and finding he […]

The acclaimed author H. G. Wells, whose lifespan ranged from 1866 to 1946, is celebrated for his iconic works such as ‘Time Machine’, ‘The Invisible Man’ and ‘The Stolen Bacillus’. His literature blended elements of fantasy with science fiction. Born in Bromley, Kent as the youngest sibling among three boys, Wells had to start working […]

There are lots of different methods used in the poems “Limbo” and “Island Man” which make these poems so amazing. I have collected together a few of them in order to understand the meaning in depth of the poems.The most obvious similarity of this poem is that they are both about the Caribbean and they […]