I have just started with the book Educating Rita by Willy Russell. It began introducing the main characters, Rita is a working class, twenty six - year- old and a hairdresser. She is supposed to have a baby by now, but she wants a better life so she decided to start a literature course in order to become more educated and culturally aware.
Frank is her tutor in his fifties and with a drink problem. During the first interview, she teaches him many things related to her experience in life, in this way we would interprete that she is not a stupid woman.
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I think that Rita is an intelligent woman beause she knows what she wants in life. She realises that she will get to live a better life if she studies more, that is why she enrols in the literature course at the Open University.
Hello Ro!
I also thought about the knowlege we get from our every day experience and Rita seems to be a street-smart because of this. But she wants more, she wants to learn those things that cannot be learnt from life experience and this determination, in my opinion, will make her a wise woman.
See you,
Lu.
I completelly agree with you Romi in the fact that Rita is not a stupid woman. We can realize this as she is well-aware of many things related to writters and the arts, though they way she expresses herself may be somewhat rough.
She is the kind of person who wants to improve herself through learning new things, as Lu said, which cannot be everyday experiences.
I have found very few people in life so far who believed they could be better people by learning something.
Hi Romina!
"Educating Rita" is one of my favourite plays, you know. Hope you enjoy sharing your reading it with me and your classmates!
I meant to ask you: when you say "she is supposed to have a baby by now, but she wants a better life so she decided to start a literature course in order to become more educated and culturally aware".
1. "Supposed"... by whom?
2. How would you define "a better life"?
3. What / whose culture do you have in mind here?
You add this shows she's not stupid. LU.G. says Rita "is an intelligent woman because she knows what she wants in life", whereas to l@u this means "she is well-aware of many things related to writers and the arts"... Made me wonder if we're all talking about the same! :-P
All the best,
Gladys
Gladys: why so difficult questions?
Rita says that she is supposed to have a baby, I would say that it is because it is "traditionally believed" that a woman has to get married, has a baby and so on.. Most of the time, society tries to impose ideas on people.
Rita thinks that a better life includes education and knowdledge about culture in general.
When I wrote that she's not stupid woman,I meant that she is an intelligent woman as Lucia said. She is also aware of writers but in some way she does not understand what they meant with their words.
See you!
Hi Ro!
I agree with you when you say that Rita is not a stupid woman. Because she realizes that there are many things she does not know, that's why, as a first step, she starts to surround herself with well aware people, as for example, her tutor, Frank.
The questions are not necessarily difficult, Ro!!! What happens is that we're so used to putting certain things in certain ways that we get "blind" to the connotations our words bring about... :-P
Now I'm wondering what Giyo means by "well-aware people"... but I'd better stop asking questions, or one of you will stone me!
See you around!
Gladys
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