How Relevant Are the Issues Raised In Educating Rita In the Year 2000?

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  HOW RELEVANT ARE THE ISSUES RAISED IN EDUCATING RITA IN THE YEAR 2000?

In this essay I am going to go into full detail how an unconfident working class women (Rita) and a middle class tutor who is on the ‘ bottle’ get there life together and I’m going to write about the issues surrounding them.

 In the first couple of scenes Frank appears to be the person in control as he is a middle class man and Rita is unsure of what she wants out of a higher education. Frank doesn’t really want to tutor Rita and states ‘yes I suppose I did take it on to pay for the drinks’. Rita is a less formal person to Frank and you can tell that as soon as she walks into franks office speaking slang saying ‘Its that stupid bleedin’ handle on the door’. Rita took up schooling, as she didn’t want to learn whilst at her upper school as ‘learning was for wimps’ and you should be buying new clothes be into music and chasing fellers when you’re a teenager. People don’t want Rita to change but she feels she has to and say’s y’ have to decide whether it’s gonna be another change of dress or a change in yourself’. Then Frank say’s ‘But you – erm – you managed to resist another new dress. This part of the scene has a lot of tension in it but then Willy Russell uses humour to break the tension by using the previous quote. –This is part of an informal education because Rita has learnt from the mistake she made not to learn at school that she wasn’t perfect and needed re – educating. Rita doesn’t know what she wants from her tutor as he asks her ‘what do you want to know’ and she replies ‘everything’.

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 Later on the script Rita wakes up Frank to a bit of life as they’re in a conversation Rita asks ‘What y’ lookin’ at me for’ and Frank replies ‘Because-I think you’re marvellous’. This is the start of continuous flirting between Frank and Rita. Rita Is a bit self-conscious of what people think about her being twenty-six, married and she still hasn’t got a baby. Her husband wants her to have a baby and she has lied to him saying she has come off the pill but she hasn’t. She states ‘I don’t wanna baby yet. See I wanna discover ...

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