Educating Rita Critical Essay Blog

Completing the critical essay on Educating Rita has helped me to develop new skills/knowledge and also expand upon those I have already acquired. As the essay required textual quotes to support my ideas I needed to complete a bibliography and use in text referencing. Although this is something which I have used in many previous essays I still feel a little uneasy about my competence, therefore this essay has provided me with more practice and a growing confidence that I am referencing correctly. I have never really approached an essay like this in connection with a play before so I have been given the opportunity of developing new skills/knowledge in ways of looking at key devices used in the text and applying them to the essay question. In particular looking at the dramatic devices used in the play rather than the literary devices which is an aspect I have looked at in many previous essays.

In general the critical essay was easier than I expected it to be. I chose to answer the question on literary and dramatic devices so I approached the essay by developing an argument and then finding evidence from the text to support that argument. I feel that looking at the text in this way has helped me in other modules particularly the drama side of the storytelling module. This is because in order to complete the assignment I have looked at various dramatic devices that Russell has used and the importance of the stage directions that are found in the play.