Educating Rita

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that she has acquired and learnt everything. "I've got what you got Frank, and you don't like it."

At the beginning he finds himself faced with an unexpectedly fresh and uncluttered mind. Rita tests Frank's intellectual talents to the full, by requiring constant justification and explanation of statements that would usually be taken for granted and accepted in a conversation between a student and a tutor. Frank is intrigued by her freshness in Act One Scene One showing that what Rita possesses is individuality, "I think you're the first breath of air that's been in this room for years." But to his dismay she comes near to losing her identity at the end.

Rita rejects her working class origin and changes her name from Susan to Rita. During the story you can realise the changes in Rita. At the beginning she isn't interested in Howard's End and she couldn't interpret books that Frank lent her correctly. Rita is too subjective and you can see the influence of her social background, ...

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mainly towards Trishs opinions. "Me an' Trish sat up last night and read them. She agrees with me...what makes it more-more...What did Trish say--?" She has become less original intellectually and usually just repeats facts from other people especially Trish to whom she refers to quite often throughout the play.

She seems a lot more arrogant to a point where she only talks about facts and repeats other people's quotes. At one particular time where Frank is about to introduce her to Blake she disregards it as, "done him." It's a monotonous, non-sentimental and non-subjective answer unlike the old Rita who asked Frank whether he had read work by T.S. Elliot was more excited by ...

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