Educating Rita.

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English Coursework Educating Rita

Educating Rita

Rita is a hairdresser from Liverpool. She is uneducated, she left school without any qualifications and she feels incomplete. Although her husband wants to have a baby, she feels that a baby will invade her life at the moment. Instead Rita feels she needs to discover herself and she wants to learn so she decides to do an Open University course. Frank is a married tutor at the university that Rita attends. He teaches Rita on a one to one basis.

I am going to be looking at act 1 scene 7 where Frank is asking Rita why she did not turn up to his house. In this scene Rita lacks confidence because she feels she is not intelligent enough to make conservation with people “with knowledge, ‘livin’ a civilised life”. I will also be looking at act 2 scene 1. In this scene Rita is a changed person, she is explaining to Frank about her fantastic experiences at summer school and tells him “you wouda been dead proud of me”, and Frank saying “What is this vision, returning from the city?”

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You can tell Rita comes from a different background to Frank by the way she uses a lot of slang words such as “takin the piss” and “just what the frig am I trying to do?” She is very poorly spoken where as Frank is well spoken. She shows a negative reaction towards an invitation to a party at Frank’s house, because she is not used to that kind of lifestyle, such as good food, wine and entertaining. She feels she is comparing herself to Frank’s friends. She lacks confidence and feels she is not able to converse with ...

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