PRoGrAmMe Of sTuDy

During all the play Rita has experienced some changes in her life as a result of her education. What is more, she has gained and simultaneously she has suffered different things.
She has gained confidence in herself as well as new experiences and the “power” to take her own choices.
I think that this self-confidence can be seen when she comes back from the summer school. Since then she considers herself as one of the “proper students” because she is more acquainted of the things she has learned and she is not afraid of showing what she knows. Because of all this (her self-confidence) as a consequence she has also gained new experiences. That is, she is now open to new things and to new challenges.
As regards taking her own choices, this is the most important thing she has been able to achieve. Now she decides what to do with her life and she knows that that is thanked to education.

I consider that Educating Rita is a play about the clash of class and culture since two persons from different social backgrounds get together because of education; in way they have some conflicts because of their belonging to different social classes.
One of those persons is Rita who is eager to be a well-educated person since she knows that this would help her to change her life for the better, so that she goes to the Open University. There she finds a different new world where there are different things, attitudes, and people with a different culture. There she meets Frank that “belongs” to that new world. He is the one who teaches her new things and also who helps her in this new process of her life.
When I said that they have some conflicts, I referred to the different ideas and attitudes that they have towards life, for example. Their cultural and social backgrounds may have caused those little confrontations between them.