Educating Rita

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for the development of the story.
"He opens his umbrella and dashes off Strandwards, but comes into collision with a flower girl who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her hands. A blinding flash lightning, followed instantly by a rattling peal of thunder, orchestrates the incident"



A common example of a popular misconception is when two people accidentally meet in odd circumstances. In this case two people coincidentally bump into each other on the street: a flower girl and a man who is in a higher class than her. It is this collision, with "a rattling thunder" which "orchestrates the incident" that explains how all the events come into place and becoming a good opening scene. In the leading event the first themes are introduced: the class differences.


"Six pence thrown away! Really, mamma, you might have spared Freddy that."

( Act 1, pg. 17 Miss Eynsford Hill says about Eliza)


The class differences are very defined and the upper classes ...

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I want a bit of amusement, cause I'm a thinking man…"

( Act 2, pg 58 Mr Doolittle says to Mr Higgins)


The undeserving poor, the people who spend most of the time drinking the money they have earned do not have any remorse of not living a life with middle class moralities with its responsibilities and duties. Mr Doolittle is a stereotype for this kind of living.

As mentioned the class differences are utterly shown and while this interaction between the two classes occurs the issue of the social problem arises.


"You expect me to get into that and wet myself all over! Not me. I should catch my death. I knew a woman did it every Saturday night; and she died of it"

(Act 2, pg ...

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