Examine Franks Unease as Rita Becomes More Educated
From the opening scene of the play Rita comes across as a confident women who is common and speaks her own mind. However, in act one scene one when she says 'the proper students' it means that she does not think that she is a proper student. She thinks that real students are the people who have passed their A-levels and who go out drinking and partying all night. This shows that she does not feel as if she is as good as them so in reality she is not that confident in herself. Her language shows the audience just how common she is, the way she abbreviates words like 'y' know' 'an', and turning 'because' into 'Cos'. She does not really use proper English grammar, she probably does not know how too. It also appears as if Rita can not go for one minute without swearing which just exaggerates the commonness in her. The audience might be shocked by the amount of swearing in the play but because frank likes Rita he allows it. The audience might expect the play to be more formal as it is in a theatre and they are probably higher-class people. Willy Russell, the author, based this play upon his life and his experiences, the modern themes such as marriage, divorce and going on the pill were purposely written about because it is what R
It is as if he is startled because he has never been around anyone like her, she has challenged him and he has accepted. She tells Frank about summer school and how good it was. He wants everything to be like it was but he does not understand that Rita wanted to change. He tries to get her to go to Australia with him but she declines. It due to him that she has an education, it is not her fault she has moved on and Frank has stayed in the past. The play was meant to reflect what life was like in the 1980's so that younger, working class people would be drawn in the theatre. She learnt about Blake from summer school away from Frank where he had no input to her opinions on Blake. When Trish tried to commit suicide because she had achieved all of her ambitions Rita realises that the only way you can be happy is when you are happy with yourself. In act two scene two she tries to copy the way Trish speaks 'I'm terribly sorry. In act two scene three the audience see an example of this where Rita challenges frank about the poem 'Blossom'. 'You are my teacher-an you're bleedin' well gunna teach me. The fact that Rita does not know Frank and yet she walks into the room an swears within the first few minutes of meeting him, 'So y' switch it off an' say, that's fuckin' rubbish', shows the audience how different Frank and Rita are. This whole change of confidence in Rita came about after she had gone to summer school. When Frank says to his wife 'yes I suppose I did take it on to pay for the drink' it means that he actually does not enjoy his job.
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