Choose to scenes from the film that illuminates 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 …showed first 75 words of 1420 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1420 total…Rita wants and Rita thinks she will be happy with this, but Frank – even with all his culture- is still unhappy. She realises that there is something she doesn't understand, that in a way she is not free. She wants to change, wants a better way of living, but doesn't really know how to achieve it- this is why she is doing an OU course. She rejects her working class origin and changes her name.