Rita and Frank's Relationship in Educating Rita
At the start of the play, Rita and Frank's personalities clash because
Rita is an uneducated girl who has the attitude of the working class.
Rita wants to improve herself and her life style. She wants to be in a
position where she has choices, the choice to change her life or to
stay the way she is, Rita calls it "finding herself." However, Frank
on the other hand is a man who has found teaching boring and
uninspiring, he has become disillusioned with his life, Rita is like a
breath of fresh air thrown into his drab, dreary and very bland life.
Rita and Frank have completely different views on life and the ways of
speaking about things. Even their accents are different. They each use
language in a completely different way, Frank will decorate his
sentences with long words, which Rita finds hard to understand, but is
fascinated by it.
Frank seems to find life boring and treats it as if he has done it all
before. Frank has a serious drink problem he uses this to drown out
his mundane life. He is unable to cope with his life and is incapable
of changing it, so he uses alcohol as an emotional crutch to give
support and hide behind.
Frank and Rita are two prime examples of 'the grass is greener on the
other side', each one is on the side that the other wants to be on,
and they are using each other to get to where they want to go.
When Rita first walks in to the office, Frank says, "and you are?"
Rita misunderstands him and replies, "I'm a what?" in response to this
question thinking that Frank was suggesting she was a thing. This
shows Rita's naivety in the use of the English la...
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cracking jokes and not talking seriously. This shows Rita has grown in
confidence and no longer needs humour to cover her inhibitions. She
has become a self-assured and confident person Frank is now relaxed
and can talk to Rita comfortably. Frank seems changed in the way he
talks. In asking Rita to come with him to Australia he is showing that
after all of the rows he still likes Rita's company and he doesn't
want to lose that company. It also shows he has lost some of his
inhibitions.
This play is all about two different people who start off with a
teacher student relationship, and don't get on much, then their
relationship evolves, and they start to complement each other and
become the best of friends and then go their separate ways: each a
different but better, more complete person, for meeting each other.
The first way that Frank overcomes adversity in his memoir is when he gets a job as a paper delivery boy to help support his mother Angela and his siblings because his father drinks away all of his money at the local pubs. “Mrs. O’Connell gives me telegrams to deliver to Mr.Harrington, the Englishman with the dead wife that was born and bred in Limerick…” (326). This quote tells of how he has to work and do work that he really does not like to help out his family and their situation. Frank is overcoming adversity by providing for his family and saving money to
...cts with his parents when they are trying to help him. He and his parents get frustrated and impatient when something does not go as planned. Arguments often take place regarding how Frank wants something done because he cannot do it himself.
Other than trying to make it day to day at their company Frank is one of the things these three ladies have in common. Frank is their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical, bigot of a boss. He lusts after most of the women under his authority at the office but has taken a special liking to Doralee, who despises him. Though despicable as a man he has just been promoted to Head of that division. He has a loving wife who ends up divorcing him to be with one of his associates. He gets another promotion and has to leave the country, he is never to be heard from again.
Frank has an interesting view on the way man has progressed morally. I think that he says that we don’t really know our morals until we have them truly questioned. In this he implies that the people who have strong morals, not only will stay true to them, but will survive. An example of this is Randy Bragg. Randy, on the day of nuclear fallout, stopped on the side of the road to help a woman. This shows that he has respect for the human race as a whole. The opposite of this was Edgar Quisenbury. Edgar valued nothing but money. In the end, the absence of money caused Edgar to become an example of Darwin’s “Only the strong” theory as he shot himself.
April loves the suave, bright Frank from New York, not the weak, unconfident man he truly is. Horrible fights dominate their lives, and they only resume their old roles when trying to
Living in poverty and not being able to meet basic needs leads the characters to result to desperate measures such as stopping Frank McCourt’s education and taking a job to support the family. Frank is forced to take the job mostly because his father is an alcoholic and uses all the dole money and his wages to buy beer instead of feeding his family. Frank describes this pattern of drinking away the money by saying " When Dad comes home with the drink smell there is no money and Mam screams at him till the Twins cry."(42) This situation lasts until Mr.McCourt leaves to work in England and is never heard from again which forces Frank to take a job at fourteen years old. Frank takes on the role of the head of the family proudly and comments " Its hard to sleep when you know you know the next day you’re fourteen and starting your first job as a man." (p.309) Frank’s ability to provide financial stability leads to greater comfort and living conditions for the family.
He starts to really care for Dwayne because they both have depression in common. At one point in the movie, Frank and Dwayne were having a conversation and Dwayne mentioned he wished he could sleep till he was 18 so he could skip all the bad parts of high school. Frank then quotes a French writer, “When it gets down to the end of your life and you look back at all those years that you suffered, you will realize those were the best years of your life because they made you into the strong person you are now”. Frank and Dwayne then continued to talk about the struggles of life. Is seems to me the way Frank can reflection on his own depression can really help others. It shows that he understands what he did and that he will handle it differently next time. There were no blatant biological and psychological stressors that influenced Frank’s depression. There was no indication of past family medical problems that would have made him susceptible but according to Beck’s therapy Frank probably inherited a genetic disposition that made him susceptible to depression. If Frank wasn’t predisposed, he could have handled all of the bad events without getting mad and impulsive. He could have had a positive outlook instead of going into deep depression and trying to kill himself. The social-cultural/environmental stressors were the primary influences that cause his depression. He believed he was a full grown adult and was supposed to have his life together but it was the complete opposite. He had a romantic failure, a career disappointment, he lost his job, his homosexuality stigma, and then he lost his apartment. For most of the movie he was handling his depression really well, but it wasn’t until he ran into is ex-student/lover that his improved mood started to spiral back downward into a depressed mood. This showed he still has
First of all, Helen is obviously a high achiever. She is the manager of a bank, so she is quite successful in her career. She also has a fairly large house, which also shows that she is quite successful. She also wants to children to be successful, which is shown with Julie. Helen wants Julie to focus on school, and also do well on her SAT so that she will go to university.
make enough money to provide for the family of seven, so Frank started doing odd
"Educating Rita" By Willy Russell and The Social, Historical And Cultural Context Of Britain In The Late 1970's
meeting in the middle. And with throughout the history of the world there has always
During the first scene of House of Cards, the viewers are given their first impression on Frank Underwood. Frank walks out of his house to the sound of a crying dog that has been hit by a car. He approaches the dog alone and gives a monologue to the audience. Frank mentions how he has no time for useless pain and he is one that likes to take charge by finding a solution. He then begins to snap the dog’s neck. This simple monologue sums up Frank’s ruthless and dominant personality throughout the show. This scene is just one of the many scenes that represent how Frank does not let anything stand in his way, especially women.
it looked like rita was going to kiss Frank but she goes to him, ges
do with a bit of something different in his life and this is why he
Louise found she felt the same way as Thelma, she wanted to improve her career situation; she discovered that she found her current situation very disappointing as she studied for years but ended up working in a job that she receives no pleasure from and works “hideous” hours. Louise was attracted to the idea of having more time just like Thelma and how she can be financially stable whilst looking for another career in the