Educating Rita is a play written by Willy Russel about a 26-year-old woman called Rita. Rita was no longer happy with the way she was living her life in the working-class lifestyle so she decided to change and better herself through education. Her unconformity with the working class caused her to become an outsider but she was not able to assimilate herself with the higher classes. Rita’s education ultimately transformed her as a person and she was no longer the same woman she once was, causing her to lose friends and family members along the way. Frank, Rita’s open university lecturer, on the other hand found he belonged with Rita but as she became more cultured and eloquent he started becoming disassociated from Rita.
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He felt a sense of belonging being around people within the working class. Frank was a man of high intellect and led a decent life within a higher class and often people in his position would not regularly associate themselves with the working-class. Frank, however, spent a large majority of his free time drinking at the local pub; where many other middle-class patrons would not willingly attend. When Rita began Open University, Frank viewed Rita as someone that could make his unmotivated teaching life a little bit more interesting, asserting: “I think you’re the first breath of air that’s been in this room for years” (page 11). Frank found a refuge via tutoring Rita. Her stubborn, yet inquisitive, nature kindled their unlikely friendship. As Rita’s education continued she became ever more like the rest of Frank’s students, she was not well-spoken and eloquent consequently leading Frank to no longer feel as if he belonged within the friendship. As she became more cultured, Rita recognised the disassociation between them. Rita believed the cause was Frank who could not understand he was no longer needed by her. As Frank and Rita argued she made the point Frank "Can't bear that I am educated now. . .I'm educated, I've got what you have an' y' don't like it because you'd rather see me as the peasant I once was. . . I don't need you anymore. I've got a room full of
It was only when Rita …show more content…
He felt a sense of belonging being around people within the working class. Frank was a man of high intellect and led a decent life within a higher class and often people in his position would not regularly associate themselves with the working-class. Frank, however, spent a large majority of his free time drinking at the local pub; where many other middle-class patrons would not willingly attend. When Rita began Open University, Frank viewed Rita as someone that could make his unmotivated teaching life a little bit more interesting, asserting: “I think you’re the first breath of air that’s been in this room for years” (page 11). Frank found a refuge via tutoring Rita. Her stubborn, yet inquisitive, nature kindled their unlikely friendship. As Rita’s education continued she became ever more like the rest of Frank’s students, she was not well-spoken and eloquent consequently leading Frank to no longer feel as if he belonged within the friendship. As she became more cultured, Rita recognised the disassociation between them. Rita believed the cause was Frank who could not understand he was no longer needed by her. As Frank and Rita argued she made the point Frank "Can't bear that I am educated now. . .I'm educated, I've got what you have an' y' don't like it because you'd rather see me as the peasant I once was. . . I don't need you anymore. I've got a room full of