Educating Rita Essay

One definition of a feminist text is that it highlights the inequality that women face; then they may show them breaking away from the situation that oppresses them. In the two texts, the females suffer many different types of inequality. Even though Educating Rita was first produced in 1980 and A Doll’s House in 1890. They deal with similar issues like challenging male superiority and do it by using mechanisms like irony and metaphors. Men in the plays restrict women and attempt to form them in a way that society approves. Which then resulting in their rebellion. Nora ‘apparently’ accepts the patriarchy but before the start of the play she gets a loan without her husband’s permission however she continues to play along with Tovald whereas …show more content…
Rita’s preference to sit on the grass shows she wants to be a real student. The window is also a metaphor for new opportunity as we see Rita “opening the window” . The entire idea of Frank’s office as a metaphor. This represents the world of academia and the outside can symbolise the upper class culture, therefore, the only way between the two is Frank’s office, in fact the idea of the “window” used by Willy Russell to show a new opportunity for both of the protagonists. Rita brings with her a "small can of oil" which she uses to allow the door to open effortlessly; this is ironic because she is trying to making her conversion smooth. The idea that Rita “walks around the room” shows us that she has broken the barrier but is not comfortable or stable in the upper-class society. Russell also shows that she will do anything to get her education. To a modern day audience, Rita’s role in her route to gaining education shows she is an ‘excitable and likeable and every inch the endearing student’ Ibsen and Russell that the women have not let men dominate their personality. Contradictory with Nora, Rita is bubbly, vibrant and