Educating Rita by Willy Russell :: English Literature

Educating RitaEducating Rita is a story written by Willy Russell. He was born(p) inWhiston, which is just outside Liverpool. When he was five his mum and soda water moved to Knowsley, on an estate full of Liverpudlians who taughthim how to talk properly. It is about both main characters Rita andFrank. Rita is a literature student at the Open University. This is auniversity that is used as a way of enabling adult students, equivalentRita. Frank is a tutor at the Open University exclusively hostile the normalupper descriptor tutors frank is a normal seamy old man, this shocksRita.Rita wanted to study and identify here, and so the fear and coerce fromher friends made her join in with the opposites around her. She didntwant to become varied from her family and friends, nor those aroundher, and so blocked the thought that she wanted more from her spiritId just play another(prenominal) record or buy another dress an stop worryinShe put this off because of the peer pressure from the other workingclass deal, she didnt want to be different and upset them so wentalong with their assumptions of women as low, and this put her off fora while.Rita sees the middle class as tot every(prenominal)y different from herself, andalthough doesnt want to be working class, doesnt receive she will beaccepted as middle class either. She has the sentiment that all middleclass individuals are free, and stereotypes, reservation sweepinggeneralisations. She assumes they all eat wholemeal bread, flora, andwatch the BBC, as this is seen as more intellectually stimulating thanITV, the channel that many of the working class watch. This shows thatshe stereotypes certain groups of people from what she has heard,instead of her own views, she doesnt wait to get to know them beforejudging.As Rita believes herself to be sophisticated and well read, she hasnamed herself after an author. Her real name is Susan, but Rita MaeBrown is a pornographic author, and as Rita likes her books, shel aughably adopts her name and believes she is making herself seem moresophisticated, once again showing her complete misapprehend thatsexually explicit novels are classified as good literature. such anaction again indicates her naive outlook and lack of literary ken at the beginning of the play.There are many themes during the play, change is plausibly the mostimportant as it shows how an individual can develop and learn in bothpositive and negative ways, the play indicates the protagonist changing from one extreme to the other, eventually discovering a happy