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Educating Rita

Educating Rita is a play written by Willy Russell, it is set in Liverpool in the early 80's. It is written to highlight the difference in class between an upper class lecturer, and a working class student. The play shows how Rita changes her class, but perhaps also loses some of her values due to the class change. Willy Russell uses Rita to explore the theme of educating; it also shows a woman going onto further education, something that was not common it the time the play was written.

In the first act, Rita is presented as a working class woman, brought up in a working class environment. She has a strong Liverpool accent, and a typical Liverpool dry sense of humour, emphasising her working class existence. Rita and Frank contrast greatly, Frank is a well-educated upper class lecturer who is well spoken,' I think it is beautiful', Rita uses colloquial language is stress that she is working class,' that's fucking rubbish', these are strong bold words which shock the audience and help them to see the huge changes Rita goes through during the play.

During the first scene Rita is dependant