Rita's Change and her Relationship with Frank
How does Rita’s character change and her relationship with Frank alter
during the course of the play?
“Educating Rita” is the story of a married working-class woman, Rita,
trying to better and discover herself by attending an open university
course. The play follows her as her character and relationship with
her tutor, Frank develop and change until she finally passes her exams
and they part.
Rita completely transforms herself through her education and by the
end she can choose what to do next rather then being swept along by
circumstances and everyone else’s expectations. Rita says that she
only wants a baby when she’s got choice and by educating herself she
is getting choices. Willy Russell writes that “education gives you a
choice” and I think by this he means lots of different types of
choice. Firstly it gives you choices on careers and your future jobs,
you have a lot more options with education, education helps you see
different views and different ways of thinking and teaches you about
different choices. You can choose whether or not to accept them. If
you are educated on a subject you won’t feel ignorant and you can
choose if you want to express your views or not, instead of keeping
quiet because you don’t know.
In educating Rita there are lots of examples of Rita becoming more
able to choose to express her views because she has been educated.
When she encounters a group of students on the lawn in Act 2 scene 2,
a student starts talking “rubbish” and Rita makes a choice to correct
him. She tells Frank that she thought “I could keep walkin’ and ignore
it or I can put him straight. So I put him straight”, the uneducated
Rita wouldn’t have had th...
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mother’s, I might even have a baby. I dunno, I’ll make a decision,
I’ll choose.” This shows how Rita is at a point where she can choose
what to do next, she is confident and although she admits the exam
might have been “worthless” it still gives her a choice. Her education
has given her the chance to take control of her own life.
I think Willy Russell clearly shows how education can change people
and how others around them react to the changes, that’s one of the
main themes of the play. Willy Russell grew up in a place where he
wasn’t expected to learn or be anything more then a factory worker and
he saved up money and took a course to help him become a writer. I
think that Willy’s attitude to education comes through in the events
and situations Rita’s faced with, sure education gives you choices:
but you have to make sure you make the right ones!
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