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The play is set in Liverpool in the 1980's and it is about a poor, single mother who has seven children and is heavily pregnant with what she thinks is one baby. It turns out to be twins and her horrible rich employer cons her out of one of them and cuts off all her contact with the baby. The twin boys grow up not knowing of each other's existence. One, Edward, grows up with the rich mother and the other, Mickey, grows up poor and common.
They first meet at the age of seven and immediately become friends after a spell of suspiciousness on Mickey's part. They discover that they are the same age and have the same birthday and so cut their thumbs and let the blood mingle to become Blood Brothers. They stay firm friends until the age of nineteen when they gradually start to part, as they both love the same girl.
The play itself is a tragic comedy as a tragedy is where the hero(s) die, and a comedy is funny. Therefore the play is a tragic comedy as both Eddie and Mickey die. The play shows you their deaths twice to emphasize what happens when separated twins learn of the other's existe
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At this point I shall discuss various recurring themes which run all the way through the play. Johnstone believing in the superstitions, and then it runs into the lives of Mr. Johnstone, he makes her build a new life in the country and Mickey and Linda get together and generally they start to have a wonderful life. For example, when he speaks of Mrs. This brings their fates even more close together.
Superstition is a major theme which runs throughout the entire length of the play.
By this I conclude my essay and will say one last thing -that it doesn't really matter how much money you have, it is the love you have for those close to your life. He is manipulating her as he does not let her pay him back the next week when she starts her job; but cuts off her service, showing his omnipotence. Then he just 'gives up' the milk round and becomes a gynaecologist, "I've given up the milk round and gone into medicine. This vast change has occurred because of the way that he has been brought up. This shows how easily superstitions can spread and how dangerous they can become. Johnstone's song: as if she is about to give something away and he is very angry. '
Throughout the whole play, he is manipulative, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, for example, at the start of the play the narrator is dictating the ending of the story before it has actually happened, ‘so did y' hear the story of the Johnstone twins…an’ did you never hear how the Johnstones died, …slain’.
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