Essays On Educating Rita

Growing up involves change. Change happens to everyone, physically and mentally and it can happen at any time. As a person grows up they enter another phase of their 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 […]

‘Educating Rita’, the film, released in 1983, was developed from the play originally by Willy Russell. It is a witty comedy about a married woman of 26 from the working class, who is determined to pass her exams thus making her education complete. Believing that education would help her find herself, she signs up for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The first issue in Educating Rita is Frank not being to keen on teaching Rita but he has to because he needs the money. ‘ D’ y’ need the money? ” I do as a matter of fact ‘. Another of the early issues is Rita’s husband Denny not wanting Rita to go to the […]

Willy Russell’s play, Educating Rita, centers around two characters, Frank and Rita, and is a two-hander with only these two characters present throughout the entire production. The main focus of Educating Rita is the relationship between Frank, a dissolute university professor, and Rita, a dissatisfied hairdresser who yearns for education. Despite the self-explanatory title, the […]

The attitudes towards women were drastically changing when “Educating Rita” was being both written and performed. Many women during the 70’s were beginning to feel frustrated that their main roles in life were those of housewife and mother. They were starting to realise that they deserved the same rights as men in all aspects of […]

“Why? Are you telling me this because I’m Frank’s brother? Because I’m your husband? Because I’m Marie’s employer… or because I’m the sheriff? ” So many titles, so many morals and so many boundaries’ that could be crossed at anytime. What is Wes to do when confronted by his conscious and his fathers pressing opinions? […]

Educating Rita shows the major transformations that happen in the main character, Rita, due to a significant alteration in her education, providing her with new ‘choices’ for later life. As Rita, is trapped by working class life, she finds it difficult to tackle the academic tasks facing her. However, Rita does show ounces of intelligence […]

Published in 1982 and written by Willy Russel, Educating Rita portrays the story of Frank, a university lecturer, and Rita, an undereducated woman from Liverpool, as they embark on their quest for higher education. Against the backdrop of the 80s, the book highlights some of the most significant moments in British history concerning women’s access […]

During this period, the working class commonly completed their education by the age of 15, resulting in unused talent and a lack of qualifications. This was especially true for women who were often expected to limit their ambitions to marriage and childbearing, with perhaps a part-time job as an option. However, the Open University (OU) […]

The setting of Educating Rita, a play by Willy Russell, is in the North of England during the 1980s. In her late twenties, Rita is resolute about obtaining an education and seeks assistance from Frank, a university lecturer whose dependence on alcohol governs his life. Act 1 Scene 1 of the play employs several dramatic […]

I believe that the opening scenes of Educating Rita are extremely effective in introducing the characters of Frank and Rita to the audience, not only through the speech but also by the setting and the props. The opening scenes establish the two characters of Frank and Rita firmly in the spectator’s mind. However one has […]

This essay will examine how Rita’s character changes and develops throughout the play as the predominant aspect of change. ‘Educating Rita’ was authored by Willy Russell, and the character he created in the play, Rita, bears a striking resemblance to Russell himself. Rita is a 26-year-old hairdresser from Liverpool who desires to discover herself before […]

The concept and meaning “Into the World” are portrayed in both the play “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell and the film “Muriel’s Wedding” by P. J. Hogan. These artistic works explore the stages of growing up and maturation, which can be seen as a transition into the next stage of life. Throughout this transitional journey, […]

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. […]

This essay presents my ideas for staging a production of ‘Educating Rita’, a play written by Willy Russell in 1979. The play gained popularity mostly during the 1980s and was designed to attract audiences from both middle class and working class backgrounds. The TV adaptation of ‘Educating Rita’, featuring Julie Walters and Michael Caine, remains […]

Willy Russell was born in Whiston, near Liverpool, England, in 1947. Russell has written a string of popular, award-winning plays and musicals, but perhaps one of the most well known is Educating Rita. In this play Willy Russell is very much producing a mirror image of parts of his life. As a child and growing […]

In creating ‘Educating Rita’ Russell produced a piece of drama to entertain and give a wide audience the opportunity to understand the class and culture difficulties and differences faced between Rita who represents the working class and Frank who represents the middle class. The contrast between Rita’s witty and thoughtful remarks, lively personality and Frank’s […]

Discuss Rita’s sense of being a half-caste in Willy Russell’s play. At first, Rita is more of an outcast in both social classes. It is when she decides to go to the Open University that she becomes a half-cast. She doesn’t seem to fit in when she attends her literature classes. The way she talks […]