Growth and change often comes about when new stages of experience allow a transition ‘into the new world’. This is illustrated in Educating Rita as Rita grows with knowledge and changes as a result of moving into the world of education and middle-class society. The changes made in Rita’s life include her name, from Susan to Rita after her favourite author. We also see Rita leave her husband Denny and her social class pressures, slowly gain confidence in herself to associate with ‘proper’ students and her views on Frank, her tutor, as well as her attitudes towards her tutorials. Rita desires to ‘know’ and expects Frank to teach her ‘everything’ in order to have choice and direction in her life, ‘I wanna discover meself’.
On the last day of school, he finally found his own way through the image “right-hand turn”, which is an entendre of a physical right hand turn of a bus; on the other hand, it also describes a correct choice and freedom leading to his future intention. Having in common with Rita, the protagonist of the play “Educating Rita”, after realising her disorientation of life, she has been seeking her new senses of belonging through the tool “education” that life has given her. By enrolling in an Open University course, getting to know Frank who represents the “educated class” and learn about literature, education has given her choices and confidence to lead her life, highlighting through the fact she discussed confidently with other university students about literature and her independence away from Frank after the Summer School. Rita’s changing in choice of formal language in conversation with Frank, and especially the stage direction “moving to the window” is a metaphorical image for her triumphs in moving to the academic and contacting with people outside. Due to people’s chagrin with their current life, life always gives us the opportunity to search for our true belonging to connect further with our
Alan Bennett centers the comedy in the play ‘The History Boys’ by revolving the plot on the opposition of two main characters, Hector and Irwin. Hector and Irwin are both teachers of the sixth form boys. Alan Bennett intentionally creates this opposition from physical appearance to teaching methods and the moral rights of life. Alan Bennett structures the plot so that the audience are able to constantly see the comparisons between the two characters actions when it comes to dilemmas and morality. Alan Bennett focuses on making differences in characteristics and physical appearance clearly visible throughout the play.
The key dramatic language of drama is presented by the director creating powerful symbolism to then build on the dramatic meaning. Throughout Cosi, the lighting effects are used as a symbol. In Act 1, Scene 1, the lights highlight Lewis’ entrance into a new world, where he then associates with patients who then, help him in his learning and self-development. At first, Lewis possesses a ‘pitch black’ perspective of the world, along with the other characters of Lucy and Nick. This is a representation of their modern beliefs that mix around the politics and the war.
Time goes on she begins to grow fond of her inmate students explaining that “I believed I could make a difference teaching at the jail,” certainly a goal of any professor (Boufis 70). Professor Boufis than begins to notice a certain, yet particularly important, difference between her two sets of students; in that her college students upon reading the same text as the inmates seem to want a define and clear point to what the work is primarily trying to relay to the reader. On the other hand her inmate students are
Mama’s plant represents both her care and her dreams for her family. Beneatah’s hair represents who she is and why it is a major motif in the play during the time the play sets. The Younger apartment is the only setting throughout the play, emphasizing the centrality of the home. The lighting seems to change with the mood, and with only one window, the apartment is a small, often dark area in which all the Younger’s often feel cramped in. While some of the play’s action occurs outside of the apartment, The home is a galvanizing force for the family.
Educating Rita by Willy Russell The aims of this essay are to look at themes in the play and analyse the structure through critical analysis of russell’s stagecraft choices. The themes that are going to be looked at are relationships, education and social class. This is going to be done by concentrating mainly on Act 1, Scene 1 and with some reference to the differences of Act 1 and Act 2. Also discussing the text and analysing the words and actions of characters with quotations from the play to support points that are made. Educating Rita is written in a duologue form as it only ever has two actors on stage and one set is used.
There are many challenges that students will face as they enter graduate level education, and one of those challenges will be staying motive and remembering why students purse a graduate degree. For some students, “graduate students suffer from insecurity, anxiety, and even boredom” (How To Succeed In Graduate School: A Guide For Students And Advisors , 1994). From experience, one way to help stay motivate would be to create a calendar with all of the class
The room is becoming her obsession and her only true passion. Her husband is becoming less of a focus and she is not as uncomfortable with the inside of her prison as before, and longs less and less to leave. Her relationship with the outside world is becoming skewered, but her initial interpretation of the room as a prison with yellow walls remains the same. Her visualization of the women within the wallpaper, is her subconscious recollection of her initial state of mind before her mental deterioration. Her current self, that is removed from her previous, more sane state, is becoming confortable in the room and feels she can do what she wants in it, however her recollection which still hangs with her drives her to feel the need to rip down the yellow wallpaper.
In Go Carolina he is singled out as a student with a speech problem and has a lot of problems accepting it. In another essay he finds himself at an art school trying to get other to accept his art. I also loved the tone in which Sedaris told his stories. While telling the stories of real-life events that could be very heart-felt, he still managed to enlighten them with a little humor. Every serious story led to another joke that kept begging me to keep reading.