Discuss how Willy Russel uses language and dramatic devices to convey the relationship between Frank and Rita in his Play

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Discuss how Willy Russel uses language and dramatic devices to convey the relationship between Frank and Rita in his Play

The play educating Rita was written in the 1980's, a decade of massive social, political and cultural upheaval during which the social fabric of Britain changed forever. At the time, Margaret Thatcher was in dominance as Prime Minister. As a result of the Conservative's rise to power, confrontation between the government and the trade unions lead to strikes and bitter, angry disputes such as the miners strike in 1984 to 1985, in which massive numbers of workers refused to toil any longer. This was dramatised in the play Billy Elliot and the attitudes of the men were portrayed as bloody and vicious. To follow up the disaster, there were riots in the inner-city areas of British cities like Brixton in London. They involved ethnic communities, which were the result of tension and unhappiness in society. When huge numbers of businesses became bankrupt, millions of people were unemployed, levels reaching the highest yet. These were not however the only disasters. Invasion of the Falkland Islands resulted in the start of a war between British and Argentinean troops in 1982.