Having finished my Educating Rita essay I had a think about what I had learned from the essay with a apple, a cup of mint tea and U2's classic 1983 album, War, playing in the back ground. I think as a mature student that the play, Educating Rita, has much resonance with my own life at the moment. Having chosen question one I found my motives were different to Rita's, but I find that there are certain things that we both have in common. I've recently been asking myself about social class. Am I working class? Am I middle class? What is class? Why is it important? I think that my view of Educating Rita has answered this. Rita was desperate to escape her working class roots and become something else. She did do this, but what she became was not what she originally aspired to be. She became something better than her aspiration. By realising that her perceptions of people like Frank and Trish's lives were wrong she managed to become an improved version of herself. Ultimately Rita, who was once Susan, gained wider experiences and different life expectations; she transcended the shackles of social class and became Susan again, only with her own expectations and her own goals. This is all I want for myself, to esperience new and exciting things that broaden my horizons. If I was to be honest I wasn't really looking forward to this essay but I ended up really enjoying it and actually getting something for my own personal well being out of it.