EDUCATING RITA

I picked the scene because it gives you a lot of impression of the characters in the first scene. You get to know a lot about the charceters straight away also what Frank thought about Rita when she entered her room.

Rita has a lot of things to change about her she comes out with things that are not important. Which have no meaning to what Frank is talking about.

The stage directions in act 1 scene 1 are quiet a lot and it tells you what is happening in the play. The stage directions are good it tells you what is happening in the play.

Willy Russell has added a lot of humour in the play especially with Rita she is working class and doesn't know much about their lifestyle and how they speak. But Rita is not bothered what anyone thinks of her she wants to study and achieve something and have a future.

Rita social defence herself that she is from a working class background she is not educated or she hasn't achieved any thing. Frank is a leature in the university he has got a lot of money and is fine.

The two hander are Frank and Rita they are good characters but their lifestyle has a real difference between them.

The audience feeling about the characters Rita and Frank are the only two main characters that we see on the stage though other people are referred to by both of them. We know about Rita's husband and Franks partner Julia also Rita's flatmate Trish but it is Rita and Frank we know best in the play. Both of them are intresting characters, Rita is working class she is twenty six years old and is a hairdresser and she has took the decision to study and enrol at the university for a literature course. It has been a difficult deiscion as it means that she has a break away from the relationships imposed on her by her husband and by the community in which she lives and works. It shows Rita is a strong characters and wants to achieve something in her life. She is determinded to change her life she's well motivated and the audience like her. She is very caring and also funny. She changes her life completely. She gradually becomes absorbed by culture and literature we have sympathy for Rita. We feel happy that she has achieved something in her life.

Frank is an English literature teacher at the university with a alchol problem he had one failed marriage and his present relationship with Julie is not a very easy one. However he has a comfortable middle class lifestyle and he has achieved something is his life and success. We as an audicence have much sympathy for Rita then for Frank because Rita is prepared to change the way she is but Frank is not changing his drinking problem. The Audience feel sorry for Frank that his life is dull but know Rita is here she has bought a breeze into his life like a breath of fresh air. But doesn't take the choice to change his habit or his drink problems. As Rita has changed herself that's why we like her more then the audicence like Frank.

The key themes of education is that you should study and try to achieve something in life because you will regret it in your life and you will come back to it after you have learned your mistakes.

So it is best to be educated and you learn something, there are a lot of personal relationship and culture clashes in the scene because of the characters Frank and Rita. Frank and Rita did like each other but it didn't work out.

The same again I have chosen to write about act 2 scene 1 there is a lot of things happening the scene. When Rita comes back from London and summer school she was telling Frank what she did and learned.

In act 2 you could tell Rita was drifting away from frank she wouldn't have been success full without Frank.

In scene 1 we find out that Frank went to France and Julia his partner left him, also a new person enters the scene Rita's flatmate Trish.

I picked act 2 scene 1 because it shows that Rita and Frank are having a little problem between them when Frank told Rita that they are going to study Blake Rita reply to him that she had already done it at summer school like she was quicker then him. When he asked Rita about her flatmate Trish he was confused and he wanted to know every thing about her and wanted her not to hide anything from him.

Rita: 'Does That Mean Eggs? Trish was going on'

Frank: 'Trish'

Rita: 'Trish, me flatmate, Trish, god it's long since I've seen y'

So it gives you a lot of detail and tells you what is happening in the room.

Rita has changed a lot since she started mixing with students and when she went to summer school. Rita thinks that Frank hasn't done nothing for her know she knows Frank has made her future if it wasn't for him she wouldn't have been in the position she is now. She would still have been a hairdresser and she wouldn't have any education in her life. She also changed her accent and stopped swearing also Rita stopped smoking.

Frank hasn't changed much his drinking problem has stayed the same but since Rita has started to drift away from Frank he know feels lonely and sad without her.

Frank misses Rita company because his partner left him he was left alone he didn't have no one to talk to he fell in love with Rita in the play.

Frank: 'Because it what you want isn't it what I'd actually do is have you by my hands and run out of this room for ever'

Rita: 'Tch' sod off'

Rita has a different accent to Frank Rita has a Liverpool accent and Frank has a more posh accent. In the play both of them keep getting mixed up with each other over the author of the books. They both say things in different ways and accent.

The stage directions in the play are good they tell you what is happening in Rita's interview. It is good it tells you what is happening in the room.

In the play there is a lot of humour and irony especially Rita she is a really funny and brings life into Franks life and the play and is happy and does make Frank happy there is a bit of swearing saying rude things but there is a lot of humour.

In the play there is a bit of conflict between the chatrcters Frank and Rita when he goes to the restaurant looking for her to tell her that her exam is going to been soon. Also Frank feels that she doesn't want to tell him anything because when she came back from summer school

The audience must feel happy that the two characters Frank and Rita have got there own way and are happy and they can live alone. They can enjoy themselves Rita has got what she wanted an education. She can at least get a fresh start and be happy and even get married and have a baby so the audience should be happy for both of them Frank will soon realise that he should have cut down on his alchoal drinking. The audience want Frank and Rita to be happy they probably have sympathy for both of them and wish them good luck.

I think the play was very good it was easy to understand and it was interesting and good to read.

I preferred the new Rita but I preferred her in the end of the play she should be educated but be herself and still study.

Yes educating Rita for title was fine because at the end of the day the play is about Rita and how she wanted to achieve something and achieve educating.

Yes the ending was good nice because it send them both of to different palces to start a fresh start and to enjoy themselves.

Kaas Abbas 10N