Comparing the Opening Scene of Educating Rita to the Opening Scene of Pygmalion These plays revolve around the theme of an upper class, well-educated man transforming a lower class woman into someone like himself. One is Pygmalion; a play set in the time when there was a very distinct class system and members of different classes avoided each other as much as possible. Educating Rita is set much more recently, when the classes mingled much more frequently and when the class system was much less distinct. However, the differences between Frank and Rita are still very apparent. Both of these are situations which could prove to be quite comical because of the culture clash. I am going to compare the opening scenes and explore the characterisation of the main characters. In both plays, the teachers are reluctant to teach their pupils. Higgins is reluctant at the beginning of the scene to teach Liza, but towards the end, when he gets more excited about the challenge, he really wants to. This is different to Educating Rita, in which Frank is willing to teach Rita at the beginning of the scene, because he needs the money, but as he learns more and more about her, he becomes more and more reluctant. He realises that Rita wants to be more like him, but he doesn't like what he is. He sees something in her that perhaps he wishes he was, or had. He realises that it isn't that great being an upper-middle class intellectual, and he doesn't believe that it is worth the effort that Rita has to go through to be one. This is apparent later on in the play, in Act II Scene iv: RITA I've got a room full of books. I know what clothes to wear, what ... ... middle of paper ... ...n comes into a man's office and asks him to teach her. In both, he is reluctant to do so, and she says that she might change her mind, and in both, the lessons are eventually agreed upon. The main difference is how the teacher views himself and how the student views him. Frank is quite self-critical and sees his middle-class existence as bleak whereas Higgins is very arrogant and content with his upper-class superiority. In both plays, you get the feeling that because the student goes to the teacher, she looks up to him. She knows he can change her for the better. Although both plays revolve around the same theme - a man from a superior class educating a younger woman from a lower one - there are obvious differences between them. At least some of these are due to the different time periods in which the plays are set.
whatever he does not want her to do. Throughout her twenty years of life with
problem and agrees to take in one of the boys and to raise him as her
I think this applies to both of the openings of the films as in the
same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her own thoughts.
changed herself, and he can’t make anything go back to the way it used to be.
“What are you reading?” My mom asked when she saw my book in my hand
In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," the main character is a woman who has been controlled and conformed to the norms of society. Louise Mallard has apparently given her entire life to assuring her husband's happiness while forfeiting her own. This truth is also apparent in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. In this story, Nora Helmer has also given her life to a man who has very little concern for her feelings or beliefs. Both of these characters live very lonely lives, and both have a desire to find out who they really are and also what they are capable of becoming. Although the characters of Nora and Louise are very much alike in many ways, their personalities differ greatly when it comes to making decisions regarding the direction of their lives.
is telling her to do all the time. This is shown by the way he has
control and she concedes to him by calling him sir, even after they begin to
in him that is totally based on a picture she makes of him in her mind. What
Over centuries of children have been enjoying the classic fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. The fanciful plots and the vivid details allow children to be entranced by characters and adventures that can only be found in these stories. One of the most beloved fairy tales, which both the Perrault and the Grimms have their own separate versions of, is Cinderella. Cinderella is able to show how both versions are able to feed off the same plots while personifying the century and social economic situation in which they have lived.
...n could change now knowing that his ex is happy and he could be the same.
... other party seems unconcerned with all these emotional gymnastics. It seems she is making the compensations for now, though she openly questions the wisdom of this arrangement for the future.
plan and tells him to leave it to her. She's cunning as she uses words
can be happy as he knows she has always been loyal to him and made