Discuss the changes in the characters in Educating Rita and explain how these are portrayed differently in the stage and screen versions of the play.

Discuss the changes in the characters in Educating Rita and explain how these are portrayed differently in the stage and screen versions of the play. Educating Rita is a play about Rita, a working class hairdresser who yearns for a change in her life and to be better educated; also it is about a dissipated literature professor who tutors Rita to earn some extra money. Rita decides to become educated to improve her life style; …

…be shown in the, '(Rita) 'Certain?' (Frank) ' Dead certain.' This quote shows that Frank uses Rita's old way of talking. Also Frank's use of Rita's old opinions in the exam shows how he has learnt from Rita. Rita's changes are good for her but for her family, Frank, Denny and her old friends it is for the worse, Rita has lost more than she has gained yet she doesn't realise this.