blood brothers

             I am writing this essay on how well Willy Russell explores the effect of the class system in Blood Brothers.
             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 existence. The difference in their upbringing and the class system also had a great effect on their lives.
             I am now going to discuss the narrator and how far he manipulates fate in the play. Early in the play he shows that he is omniscient as he tells the audience what happens in the end, 'till the day they died'. On the next page, he appears to be omnipresent as he turns up as the milkman to interrupt Mrs. Johnstone's song: as if she is about to give something away and he is very angry. 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.
             Further on in the play, he is manipulating fate by planting ideas of separating the twins in Mrs. Lyons' he...

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