Educating Rita :: English Literature

Educating Rita Willy Russells play Educating Rita only uses one main setting andtwo main characters. Some batch may think that these would make theplay seem boring. Russell actually makes the play quite interestingand entertaining by using dramatic devices such as the whiskey bottleand the telephone call. He does this to give us as such(prenominal) information aspossible about the characters and their personalities.The play, which is set in the untimely 1980s, deals with the clashesbetween education and culture. It is about a middle-aged universitylecturer called Frank. He is currently in a relationship with Julia.This relationship is not going in like manner well as Frank is an alcoholic andwould much rather go to the pub than go home to Julia.There is also Rita a 26-year-old woman who didnt have a goodeducation when she left school due to her parents running(a) classbackground. She is now keen and eager to learn even though her husbandDenny thinks that it is time for her to se ttle down and have children.Rita has set her sights higher than this.Rita is currently working as a hairdresser, but wants to achieve somuch more than that, she wants an education.We constitute an idea of what sort of personality Frank has got by theconversation he has with Julia when she calls him to see when he wascoming home. Although Frank had other Ideas, he was planning on goingto the pub. We could see this by, Yes I shall go to the pub and Idont need determination to get me to the pub. We get the impressionthat Frank does not care a great deal about Julia although its clearshe loves him.When Frank was told that he was going to be tutoring Rita who is an undetermined university student he was not very happy, the only reason he hadtook the job was so that he could make more money to spend on alcohol.Frank guessed that she was going to be some silly woman. This givesus the impression that Frank likes to use stereotypes and thinks thatthere is not much point. He short realises that Rita has quite a lot tooffer in regard to he uniqueness. The Playwright Russell wants to showhow class affects education.When we first meet Rita we see that she is not the design studentFrank was expecting. She swears and uses informal colloquial language.This makes us think that Rita is not at all nervous about startingOpen University and also makes her working class background obvious.