Moving into a New World

Moving into a new world deals with the aspects of growing up or transition to a new phase of life. People encounter different experiences and respond to them individually. Wily Russell's play "Educating Rita" examines the fundamental questions of what the purpose of education is and where it can lead. Through the exchange of Frank and Rita, Russell raises the issues of individuality and conformity, choice and knowledge. This essay through close and detailed reference to "Educating Rita", Hunter S. Thompson's letters in "The Proud Highway" and "The Truman Show" will discuss how moving into the new world is a decision that presents both opportunity and risk.

Rita is dissatisfied because she is limited by the barriers of his current world in which is not acceptable to seek education. This causes Rita to acquire the motivation and seek a new world. Rita's sense of emptiness in her current existence is apparent "See if I'd started takin' school seriously, I would have had to become different from me mates, that's not allowed". Frank's room represents the new world that Rita wants to enter. Rita is so eager to change worlds that she will embrace change for its own sake without assessing whether that change will truly represent her. Frank's room is a reflection of his personality. Thus if Rita were to have the same room it would be ‘phoney' because' because it would not reflect her personality. Rita describes a feeling of alienation, staying in the same world is acceptable, but moving into a new world is not.