Educating Rita by Willy Russell

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   Another important thing Rita says is that before the Peer Gynt essay, Frank gave Rita a book to read and borrow Rita replied, “Ta, I’ll look after it. If I pack the course in I’ll post it to y”. This just proves and shows you that Rita feels she doesn’t have the self-confidence to prove to everyone and herself that she can do it. Rita lacks so much self-confidence and when the play goes on Rita gains that self-confidence and does well in this course and in life.

   

   Rita slowly but surely learns to write proper essays with Franks help but things start to change in Rita’s life. Rita decides to leave her husband Denny because he keeps going on about having a baby but Rita still wants to learn ‘everything’. She moves in with a girl called Trisha and starts to think of herself as a ‘Proper student’ because at the start of the course Rita always said to Frank “I want to be a like them, out there”. She meant being a proper student.

   When Rita returns from summer school you could say that, that this was the turning point in the play. Rita starts to develop her self-confidence. Rita buys second hand clothes but there new to her and her new life style. So she hasn’t only changed the way she thinks but now she has also changed her appearance. At this point I think Rita is started to enjoy her life and her life that the university (she’s started to fit in there). She turns around and says to Frank “Another lecture, smack. It was dead good though” at least Rita has started to enjoy her new life style.

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   Frank on the other hand feels he has lost the true, happy, real Rita who was “The breath of air” that first came into the room and keeps quoting things Rita has said to him like when she told him assonance means getting the rhyme wrong. Susan, which is Rita’s real name because she changed her name to Rita at the start, when she first goes and sees Frank in his lecture room. Frank at this time is under the influence of alcohol he starts to call him-self ‘Mary Shelley’. At first Rita didn’t understand what Frank was ...

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