Educating Rita Film vs Book

the text of Educating Rita by Willy Russell.

When the play was written there was a still a cultural divide between the uneducated (as in no higher education) working class and the cultural and educated upper class but higher education was slowly being made available to the masses.

This was partly due to Open University (OU) with provided a university education to those who normally would have not been able to go due to employment or the fact that they might feel they wouldn’t fit in, like Rita, because of the cultural differences.

Rita feels she needs an education to fill her life, as she knows that something in her life is not right and so she turns to the part of a life she doesn’t have –education and knowledge of culture- to fill the gap.

However as we find out this is not necessarily what she is missing, but in her search for an education she finds ‘a new Rita’, she even changes her name back to Susan. Susan is Rita’s real name, however when she started OU she changed it to Rita after Rita Mae Brown, someone who she thinks writes literature, but in fact writes “pulp-fiction” stories, because at this time she thinks all books are literature- this shows the cultural diff

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