EDUCATING RITA (RESPONSE TO A PLAY BY SHAHRUL HAZHAR)

Intro

- Educating Rita
- Thesis statement: explaining an issue arises <<Women and Social Expectancy>> with 2
different contexts.

Body 1

- (TS)How women should get pregnant when they are in marriage.

- Knowing how Rita’s husband wants a child so bad, he becomes irrelevant in forcing Rita to
stop her studies.
- It always comes to women to choose DREAM or FAMILY
- Rita’s right to get education is denied – her husband burns her reading material after she
gets caught lying about taking pills.
- The high expectation her husband puts on her makes her lie. (the best option she has
realising the fact the pregnancy will make her to delay her studies. )
- Even though ER first published in 1986, the issue is relevant until today.
- Girls are often socialised to assume domestic and care responsibilities, with the
assumption that they will be economically dependent on men. 
(https://theirworld.org/news/why-girls-are-still-denied-equal-chance-of-education)

Body 2

- (TS)What women should do at some particular ages.

- Rita realises she is being mocked because of her desire to studies at her age
- At the age of Rita, she is expected to dedicate her life to her family.
- The lateness to get education explains a lot the way she was treated to have desire to study,
(she determines to finish her studies even she realises how people at the age of hers are
expected to babysit the children)
- Women have always being what to do with their life
The age of 7, women should learn how to cook and bear in mind everything women ant to
do is just waste of life because they will end up being a housewife
The age of 22, women should get married and please their husband
The age of 25, women should have babies and forget their dreams

Closure

- The issues arise in many plays are an act of the playwrights to voice out the issues revolve
around them
- Knowing how their plays suit today’s era shows how the world hasn’t solved the issue.