Module 2: Transforming Stories
1200 Word Essay
Module 2: Transforming Stories
Discuss how Elizas and Ritas learning of new languages traps them between social and linguistic worlds.
Introduction (150 words)
Linguistic worlds relates to education, the way people talk, and the way people write. "Educating Rita" is a play by Willy Russell that is about the journey of Rita. Hairdresser Rita wants to advance her education and change the direction of her life. As she explores her knowledge, Rita disregards typical standards and discovers the importance of personal growth. The play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw tells the story of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, who transforms under the guidance of Professor Henry Higgins. Eliza seeks to elevate her social status through language study, highlighting the complexities of identity, cultural, and social expectations.
Explain linguistic worlds.
Introduce both plays.
Talk about what they are about.
What is social and linguistic worlds?
What does the assignment question mean?
P1 (300 words)
Para One:
At the start of educating Rita, her linguistic ability is low, and she doesnt talk proper, she doesnt talk in posh English. Frank her teacher, has high linguistic ability he is a professor, he reads, he is well read. Linguistic worlds: education is a linguistic world. High education, poor education two linguistic worlds
Quotes and evidence that support each paragraph.
Discuss the beginning of each play.
Eliza (in the beginning of Pygmalion, eliza Doolittle is found with low linguistic ability. Talk about how she looks and talks. Quote. Talk about how she dresses poorly, but as well as she can be.
Rita: how she talks, talks about desiring to be in high education and how they desire to be a part of higher linguistic ability and to be a part of the educated world.
Eliza Doolittles situation inPygmalion: what world has she come from, and where does she end up? How does she express her exasperation that she no longer 'fits in' with her old world, nor in her new world? Go into detail about Eliza's progression through the story. She thinks that learning to speak 'proper' will elevate her to a job in a flower shop, only to discover instead that her new 'status'--brought about through her voice training and etiquette training, makes her qualified for little else than to marry a middle-class man and tonot workanywhere. What does Eliza decide to do at the end of the play?
P2 (300 words)
In the mists/middle of their education
When Rita is right in the thick of it, when she discusses about a book that shes read with frank or when she discusses quite liberally with him about an intellectual text or a book hes read or an assignment hes given Rita.
Eliza the scene when shes at the Eynsford hill house and how shes doing her best to sound stuff. Higgins shows her off to this high-class family,
The Eynsford Hills represent the world that Eliza aspires to join, and her interactions with them contribute to her transformation and the challenges she faces in fitting into this new social environment.
Talk about how theyve improved and moved up in linguistic ability and social class.
Improving their education
P3 (300 words)
The end of their journey
Rita how she has a new job and talks to the other students, how she is at a point shes happy with
Eliza says she isnt higher class enough and how she asks what she is supposed to do now that Higgins has finished his training. How she feels, and how she is of higher class and higher linguistic ability but not much has changed to how it was at the start. It has improved but not to the point where some people would expect.
Para 3:Conclude your discussion with a wider look at how Eliza's and Rita's journeys from their 'working class to 'middle class' character traits are so similar to one another's, and discuss, too, how their stories diverge/differ: i.e. does Rita have more options than Eliza?
Conclusion (150 words)
Both protagonist from Pygmalion and educating Rita wishes to improve their linguistic ability and move up in the linguistic world. They both seek this out through higher education or linguistic training.
Conclude the text above.
Eliza turned out this way
Rita turned out this way
This was beneficial to both as
Secondary peer reviewed sources
Primary texts the play, not the film
find 3 primary quotes from the plays for each section, and quote too from a relevant secondary source (Linda Mugglestone's article is good for this essay question. Find details of the article on my lecture slides forPygmalion)
overall, paragraph one explains the beginning of both rita and eliza and how they are of a low linguistic ability- discuss how rita uses slang in the beginning and how the way she talks to frank changes. paragraph 2 is about the middle of their journey and development, and paragraph 3 is about after everything and how theyve become better in their education, linguistic ability etc. quotes are really important.
1200 Word Essay
Module 2: Transforming Stories
Discuss how Elizas and Ritas learning of new languages traps them between social and linguistic worlds.
Introduction (150 words)
Linguistic worlds relates to education, the way people talk, and the way people write. "Educating Rita" is a play by Willy Russell that is about the journey of Rita. Hairdresser Rita wants to advance her education and change the direction of her life. As she explores her knowledge, Rita disregards typical standards and discovers the importance of personal growth. The play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw tells the story of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, who transforms under the guidance of Professor Henry Higgins. Eliza seeks to elevate her social status through language study, highlighting the complexities of identity, cultural, and social expectations.
Explain linguistic worlds.
Introduce both plays.
Talk about what they are about.
What is social and linguistic worlds?
What does the assignment question mean?
P1 (300 words)
Para One:
At the start of educating Rita, her linguistic ability is low, and she doesnt talk proper, she doesnt talk in posh English. Frank her teacher, has high linguistic ability he is a professor, he reads, he is well read. Linguistic worlds: education is a linguistic world. High education, poor education two linguistic worlds
Quotes and evidence that support each paragraph.
Discuss the beginning of each play.
Eliza (in the beginning of Pygmalion, eliza Doolittle is found with low linguistic ability. Talk about how she looks and talks. Quote. Talk about how she dresses poorly, but as well as she can be.
Rita: how she talks, talks about desiring to be in high education and how they desire to be a part of higher linguistic ability and to be a part of the educated world.
Eliza Doolittles situation inPygmalion: what world has she come from, and where does she end up? How does she express her exasperation that she no longer 'fits in' with her old world, nor in her new world? Go into detail about Eliza's progression through the story. She thinks that learning to speak 'proper' will elevate her to a job in a flower shop, only to discover instead that her new 'status'--brought about through her voice training and etiquette training, makes her qualified for little else than to marry a middle-class man and tonot workanywhere. What does Eliza decide to do at the end of the play?
P2 (300 words)
In the mists/middle of their education
When Rita is right in the thick of it, when she discusses about a book that shes read with frank or when she discusses quite liberally with him about an intellectual text or a book hes read or an assignment hes given Rita.
Eliza the scene when shes at the Eynsford hill house and how shes doing her best to sound stuff. Higgins shows her off to this high-class family,
The Eynsford Hills represent the world that Eliza aspires to join, and her interactions with them contribute to her transformation and the challenges she faces in fitting into this new social environment.
Talk about how theyve improved and moved up in linguistic ability and social class.
Improving their education
P3 (300 words)
The end of their journey
Rita how she has a new job and talks to the other students, how she is at a point shes happy with
Eliza says she isnt higher class enough and how she asks what she is supposed to do now that Higgins has finished his training. How she feels, and how she is of higher class and higher linguistic ability but not much has changed to how it was at the start. It has improved but not to the point where some people would expect.
Para 3:Conclude your discussion with a wider look at how Eliza's and Rita's journeys from their 'working class to 'middle class' character traits are so similar to one another's, and discuss, too, how their stories diverge/differ: i.e. does Rita have more options than Eliza?
Conclusion (150 words)
Both protagonist from Pygmalion and educating Rita wishes to improve their linguistic ability and move up in the linguistic world. They both seek this out through higher education or linguistic training.
Conclude the text above.
Eliza turned out this way
Rita turned out this way
This was beneficial to both as
Secondary peer reviewed sources
Primary texts the play, not the film
find 3 primary quotes from the plays for each section, and quote too from a relevant secondary source (Linda Mugglestone's article is good for this essay question. Find details of the article on my lecture slides forPygmalion)
overall, paragraph one explains the beginning of both rita and eliza and how they are of a low linguistic ability- discuss how rita uses slang in the beginning and how the way she talks to frank changes. paragraph 2 is about the middle of their journey and development, and paragraph 3 is about after everything and how theyve become better in their education, linguistic ability etc. quotes are really important.
