Educating Rita by Willy Russell :: English Literature

Educating RitaEducating Rita is a story written by Willy Russell. He was born inWhiston, which is just outside Liverpool. When he was phoebe bird his mum anddad moved to Knowsley, on an estate full of Liverpudlians who taughthim how to confabulation properly. It is about two main characters Rita andFrank. Rita is a literature student at the opened University. This is auniversity that is used as a way of modify adult students, likeRita. Frank is a tutor at the Open University but unlike the normalupper cast tutors frank is a normal scruffy old man, this shocksRita.Rita regarded to study and learn here, and so the fear and pressure fromher friends made her join in with the others around her. She didntwant to become antithetic from her family and friends, nor those aroundher, and so blocked the thought that she precious more from her lifeId just fly the coop another record or buy another dress an stop worryinShe put this off because of the accomplice pressure from the other wor kingclass people, 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 spunk class as totally different from herself, andalthough doesnt want to be working class, doesnt feel she will beaccepted as middle class either. She has the idea that all middleclass individuals are free, and stereotypes, qualification sweepinggeneralisations. She assumes they all eat wholemeal bread, flora, andwatch the BBC, as this is seen as more intellectually stimulating thanITV, the channel that galore(postnominal) 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 complete them beforejudging.As Rita believes herself to be sophisticated and well read, she hasnamed herself after an author. Her accepted name is Susan, but Rita MaeBrown is a pornographic author, and as Rita likes her books, she prepostero usly adopts her name and believes she is making herself seem moresophisticated, once again demo her complete misunderstanding thatsexually explicit novels are classified as good literature. Such anaction again indicates her naive outlook and overlook of literaryawareness at the beginning of the play.There are many themes during the play, change is probably the mostimportant as it shows how an individual gage develop and learn in bothpositive and negative ways, the play indicates the protagonistchanging from one extreme to the other, eventually discovering a apt