Educating Rita

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can’t give it... I don’t like the hours, you know. Strange hours for this Open University thing. They expect us to teach when the pubs are open. I can be a good teacher when I’m in the pub, you know.” (1.1.Pg. 13) The reason Frank disapproves of his job is because of the strange hours – he works during the evenings when he would like to be socialising in the pub. He thinks he is an awful and uninspired teacher so he wants Rita to go and find a better tutor who can teach everything she wants to learn properly. Rita is also disenchanted with her job because she thinks that she could do better if she has a better education. Therefore, she comes to the Open University to study and finds Frank who teaches her a lot of things in the course of the play. “They expect too much. They walk in the hairdresser’s an’ an hour later they wanna walk out a different person... But if you want to change y’ have to do it from the inside, don’t y’? Know like I’m doin’.” (1.1.Pg. 11)

Rita hates her ...

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this. I can’t be bothered arguin’ with him.” (1.4.Pg. 27) Rita’s husband, Denny doesn’t let Rita do academic work at home because he is scared that she will achieve something beyond his level and be more intelligent which will make Rita be ahead of him. Later on in the play, we find out that Denny burns some books that Rita had borrowed earlier from Frank to read. The reason he might be doing this also could be because he doesn’t understand anything of what Rita is learning.

Although the characters have some similarities, there are inevitably profound differences too. The main difference between the two characters, Frank and Rita, is that Rita is doing something to change her lifestyle ...

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