In this last part of the play the new Rita who successfully has passed her test goes to tell Frank about it and about what she feels after all her learning process.
On the one hand, Rita tells Frank about her flatmate's trying to commit suicide. She criticizes this question of spending her eating healthy food for a better life quality and on the other hand spending time trying to kill herself. As a result of this, she mentions the word "choice". That was Trish's choice, she chose that contradictoy path of taking care of herself in a way and trying to destroy herself at the same time. Rita thanks Frank because thanks to his help she had a choice. I think she had different choices since the moment she decided to start studying and as she said, she chose "her". She might have chosen to go on her life just as it was.
Secondly, as regards her view of the other students, I think Rita at the beginning idealized them, later on she realized they were just like her, people with different options in life. She realized whether better educated or not they were not people who could make better choices than the ones she could make. All in all the most important thing was she realized she also had choices.
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I definitely agree with you that the most important thing in Rita's learning has been to "realise she also has choices", Silvia. In that sense, education should help us become masters of our lives, instead of mere "victims of the system"... Do you feel your own education at TTC has contributed to your "emancipation" in this way, I wonder? (no need to reply unless you really feel comfortable discussing it!).
One last thing: you write "she realized whether better educated or not they ('the proper students') were not people who could make better choices "... I ask... "were they really better educated? What definition of education would you be supporting with your answer?
Big hug,
Gladys
BY better educated I meant that they had the possibility or access to college before Rita. We do not know whether they 've taken that decision by themselves or their parent have done it for them. I didi not mean with more or better education.
I see, Silvia... Though I do understand what you meant, I still feely your choice of words highly questionable, you know?
To me, somebody who is "better educated" would be somebody who has accquired tools or strategies to make their own choices more autonomously, or has widened their range of choices, or can see themselves as better able to take wiser choices (which increase their chances of living a happy life).
Rita says it much better than me in the last scene of the play, doesn't she?
LOL,
Gladys
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