These are the final scenes of the play where Rita and Frank decide “to embark on new stages of their lives.”
So far we have seen that Rita learned different and worthy things for her life. First of all, she learned that through education “new doors” can be opened to her. That is, she got to know that education is a powerful process that enables people to improve and change their lives for the better as well as to have a different view of events that happen around them.
What is more, she learned to have self-confidence since now she feels able to do things that she didn’t use to.
Last but not least, I think that Rita may have learned that now she has new opportunities and new decisions to make as regards her life. Besides that, she may have learned that now she is one who has the “power” to decide or herself what way to take. Now she doe not have “to follow or to obey” any order or any wish such her ex-husband’s…
Although the title is “Educating Rita”, “Educating Frank” might have been an alternative title. By the end of the play, he also learned that he has been a good teacher after all. He have helped Rita to realize that there are other things to do with her life and that she shouldn’t have felt as if she belonged to a “less level” of the proper students (as she used to feel like). I think that Frank tries to show this to Rita when he invites her to a dinner at his home, where friends of him were.
Another thing that he may have been taught is that, as Rita says he hadn’t give nothing, but the opportunity to show her that she is the one who has to decide for herself.
As regards Rita cutting Frank’s hair, I think that Willy Russell chose this scene to end the play because he may want to show us that Rita doesn’t reject her background completely as she may have done previously and that she wants to thank Frank for all his patience, pieces of advice and the way she finds to do that is by cutting his hair: the best thing she know how to do.
So far we have seen that Rita learned different and worthy things for her life. First of all, she learned that through education “new doors” can be opened to her. That is, she got to know that education is a powerful process that enables people to improve and change their lives for the better as well as to have a different view of events that happen around them.
What is more, she learned to have self-confidence since now she feels able to do things that she didn’t use to.
Last but not least, I think that Rita may have learned that now she has new opportunities and new decisions to make as regards her life. Besides that, she may have learned that now she is one who has the “power” to decide or herself what way to take. Now she doe not have “to follow or to obey” any order or any wish such her ex-husband’s…
Although the title is “Educating Rita”, “Educating Frank” might have been an alternative title. By the end of the play, he also learned that he has been a good teacher after all. He have helped Rita to realize that there are other things to do with her life and that she shouldn’t have felt as if she belonged to a “less level” of the proper students (as she used to feel like). I think that Frank tries to show this to Rita when he invites her to a dinner at his home, where friends of him were.
Another thing that he may have been taught is that, as Rita says he hadn’t give nothing, but the opportunity to show her that she is the one who has to decide for herself.
As regards Rita cutting Frank’s hair, I think that Willy Russell chose this scene to end the play because he may want to show us that Rita doesn’t reject her background completely as she may have done previously and that she wants to thank Frank for all his patience, pieces of advice and the way she finds to do that is by cutting his hair: the best thing she know how to do.
