"Educating Rita " begins with Frank searching frantically in his bookcase, muttering the names of famous authors under his breath as he searches for what we think tobe a book. However, to our surprise, Frank pulls out a bottle of Whiskyand...

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"Educating Rita " begins with Frank searching frantically in his bookcase, muttering the names of famous authors under his breath as he searches for what we think to be a book. However, to our surprise, Frank pulls out a bottle of Whisky and pours himself a drink. This tells us that Frank perhaps has a drinking problem.

         Rita's entrance in the scene is an important moment. She knocks twice on the door although Frank yells at her to come in. Eventually she bursts into the room swearing and using common language (this is different with Franks very upper class English)
" I'm comin' in, aren't I? It's that stupid bleedin' door. You wanna get it fixed!”

          This is very dramatic as we are made to wait for Rita's entrance and she doesn't walk into the room, as we would expect a student, having her first meeting with a teacher, to do. She tells Frank what to do. She is at the college because she wants to be and wants to do things in her own way.

               The main characters in educating are Rita and Frank. Rita is a working class person who is trapped in life and wants choice, she has little education and a poor job as a hairdresser and during the play she tries to break free from her social class, she thinks she should have had a baby by her age, she wants to discover herself first but no one understands so she thinks she is different, in the play she says "I should have had a baby by know every one expects it". Rita wants to be more like Frank, educated, middle class, has choice. But Frank is also bored and trapped, he goes to the pub a lot to cover up for his unhappiness, Rita also wants to change some of Frank.

Rita's main reason for trying for an education is so she can have choice, she tells Frank that everyone thinks they have a choice but they all think choice is deciding what drink to have or what to wear, Rita also thought this at the very beginning of the play, now Rita knows this is not a choice, choice is something that will change her life. Rita is fed up of other people making her choices for her.

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                When Frank first meets Rita he sees her as a breath of fresh air in his life and he responds very well to her cheeky and irreverent approach to almost anything. He is so impressed that he tells her to get another tutor because he thinks he isn’t good enough for her. Later on Rita becomes more conventional in her views, and Frank thinks of himself as a sort of Frankenstein who has created a monster and he can no longer control.        

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