Rita leaves her home and family behind and moves to a different place. How does her life style change? (P2)

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Educating Rita

  1. When we are first introduced to Rita she is a hairdresser. How would you define her in terms of her social class? Support your ideas with examples from the film and elsewhere e.g. the most recent classification system used to define social class. (P2)

I would define her in terms of her social class as a snobby person. She fits in a working class D, the way she speaks (language) is different the type of clothes she wears is different, she wears mini skirts. The environment Rita lives in is run down and dirty there is no front garden and no green space.

  1. In details discuss how physical, social and economic factors have combined to affect Rita’s personal development and self-concept and that of others?  (M1)

Physically Rita has been smoking and she has been on the pill and other wise she is in good health. Rita works long hours and she is in a lot of stress. Rita marriage is going nowhere; she is deceiving her husband by not telling him that she is on the pill. Socially Rita is not very out going but she is a hairdresser she does meet different people. Rita feels left out at the university because she feels that she does not fit in and the other students won’t accept her.

  1. Using the information you have gathered about Rita consider the ways in which her life has changed since she began her degree course. Evaluate the effects of social and economic factors on Rita’s growth and development and that of others. Support your ideas with examples from the film and from other sources? (D1)

The way Rita’s life has changed is that she is more confident and she knows what she wants. Rita appreciates the environment out side her experience and starts to go to the theatre. Her marriage breaks down because Denny her husband is not supporting her. Denny is jealous that she is changing.

Socially Rita gets to know other students and starts to get involved in their conversations and she build in confident and her language starts to improve and she think before she speaks and makes sense in what she is saying.

Economically Rita does not have a good house to live in. the house she lives in is not as well decorated and her husband Denny is breaking down the wall to make two rooms into one. The environment she lived in was polluted and there was a factory nearby. She lived in a terraced house in a city area and they were probably buying that house or probably had a mortgage. There were no green spaces nearby. It was packed with houses and factories and there was only one corner shop.

  1. Rita is married at the beginning of the film. What expectations does her husband, Danny, have of Rita as a wife? What other pressure, social and economic might affect marriages in general. (P2)

The expectation that Danny haves of Rita are that he wants to have a baby but Rita doesn’t. He demands her to listen to him and when she didn’t Danny throw her essay in the fire. Danny doesn’t want Rita to change and be different from him. If they did have children they would struggle with the needs of the child because they don’t have enough income coming in because Danny is a builder and Rita is a hairdresser.

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Rita’s husband has done something that he has no right to do because Rita has her right to educate herself and what she wants to do. Rita wants to learn and be educated like others but her husband does not like this because he knows that when she is educated he will lose her.

  1. In relation to her husband, how does Rita see herself and what does she appear to want from her life? (P2)

Rita wants to make her own choices and explore the world and see her self as a successful person. Rita ...

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