Responce to Blood Brothers
This play is an observation of modern day living and also of the evils of the class system. The main three characters in the play are Eddie, Mickey and Mrs Johnstone. Eddie and Mickey are twins, and Mrs Johnstone is their mother. They are separated at birth and grow up unaware of this.The play is told in a form so that the only person that changes his or her role is the narrator, who changes throughout in order to create the idea that the main characters are somehow cut off from the outside world at that they are unable to escape that. The Narrator follows the plot and is there from the first page to the last, almost like some deadly ethereal spectre, and he represents the devil that he often talks about. He is always a figure in the background, never directly intervening for good nor ill, he only accelerates the sense of impending disaster. The play itself is a musical, and all the music that is in it boils down to one theme tune, this theme is in the piece of music 'Tell me it's not true.' And all the other music in the play is based on that one tune. The music itself is quite sad and almost ominous, and it is made clear early on in the play that the ending will not be pleasant. Having seen the ending of the pl
Blood brothers is one of the most important statements about the English class system in the last century, and it is this dramatic representation of the times that is the end of Mickey and Eddie, two twins born to die. So in a way Mrs Lyons improvised superstition, (if you tell twins secretly parted the truth they will both die) comes true in the most terrible way. It is mentioned in the last speech of the play as the cause of the deaths. In his confusion Mickey shoots Eddie. 'One of the most important scenes is where Mrs Lyons comes face to face with Mrs Johnstone after discovering the locket. This was given to him by Mrs Johnstone and is his most prized possession. It is a theme that the narrator constantly brings up, the superstition in his song. In that moment it sums up mainly the whole of the play, the desperation, deceit and difference that brings upon the deaths of Eddie and Mickey, and the madness and hysterical attitudes of others. Eddie is willing to risk his entire future and career on the locket, and this is a huge part of Eddie's life, the best of the upper class English education and also therefore the best of English life is offered to him and he risks it all just for that. The end sequence is a huge climax, where you know that all that has been prophesised will now come to pass. When Mrs Lyons sees this locket she is beset by fear and she starts to degenerate in an illogical being, driven by her animal instincts. Irrational superstition plays a huge part in the play, Mrs Johnstone is angry with Mrs Lyons for leaving a pair of new shoes on the table, and later in the play when Mrs Lyons is riddled with guilt and fear, and screams at Mr Lyons for leaving a pair of new shoes on their table, and dramatic contrast to the start of the play. We now see that the childish play of Eddie and Mickey the first time they meet is tainted with a sense of foreboding and dread, we also see this in the fairground scene where the narrator utters the lines 'And who'd dare tell, the lambs in spring, What fate the later seasons bring. Mrs Lyons tries to persuade Mrs Johnstone to leave but she refuses and turns her back.
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