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1. Blood Brothers
Willy Russell uses the contrast of characters to show the major difference in social class in the play Blood Brothers. Mrs Johnstone was the first
character introduced to us in the play. In 'Blood Brothers ' Mrs Johnstone lives in a poor end of Liverpool, struggling to bring up eight children on
her own and is forced to give one away to keep the others clothed and fed well enough, whereas Mrs Lyons, whom she works for, lives in a large
house, very comfortably in a nice part of Liverpool, she wants children but is unable to have any, even though she is rich, unlike Mrs Johnstone. Mrs
Johnstone is portrayed as a stereotypical working class mother. In the introductory song, Russell uses Mrs Johnstone to create this stereotype. "We got
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Also, due to her lack of education (presumably) Mrs Johnstone is very religious, and extremely superstitious. This is probably due to her lack of
money; therefore she must turn to superstition and religion for support. The reader is assured of these ideas when the audience is informed that her
husband has left her, this is also a reason for her to turn to religion. It all comes down to her social class in the hierarchy of society. This is made clear
in the song "Marilyn Monroe". She sings of how she met a man that told her she looks like Marilyn Monroe, and then gets her pregnant. They have
several more children, and then marry. He leaves her after saying that she looks "a bit like Marilyn Monroe". This wraps the idea of social class into a
neat bow, for the stereotype of working class men is for them to aspire to marry a nice looking woman, long legs etc. Therefore Mrs Johnstone fell
into a false sense of love due to her class status, and ended up alone and vulnerable. Her children seem to be re–living history when Linda and Mickey
break up after Eddie's return from university.
Overall, I believe that social class is the main theme in the play, and that Willy Russell has presented the theme very effectively. The two different
families living in such a close distance from each other allows the audience to see
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2. Blood Brothers Overview Essay
Blood Brothers Overview
Blood Brothers tells the story of twin bothers who are born into a large working class family from Liverpool called the Johnston's. Due to financial
problems and threats from the welfare to take the family into care, Mrs Johnston decides to have one of the twins adopted into the Lyons family, (a
rich upper–class family who are unable to have children). The play looks at the differences and conflicts in their upbringings, their relationships to each
other and those around them, and their real and adopted mothers.
The essential way we went about working on it was this. We would start off by reading the passage we would be working on at the beginning of the
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* Kids– role–playing in playground – For this lesson we practiced with our teacher in a whole class role–play of how to act as children. We practiced
many of the features of children such as very happy and over expressed facial features and body language often doing very childlike and disgusting
features that we thought kids would do in and act like.
* Mrs Lyons presents Mr Lyons– For this task we worked in boy/girl pairs that our teacher selected for us. This was a good development as it
enabled us to work with people we would never usually work with and see how well we got on with each other, although for some students it was
very awkward. For this scene we performed Mrs Lyons presenting the baby that she had received from Mrs Johnston and portraying our views of
what we thought Mr Lyons reaction would be. We mainly focused on our body language and trying to perform as naturally and real as possible.
For our main task we focused on Act 4 scenes 1 and 2 and the transition between the two. We had to create two scenes over the period of a few
lessons, which would show the first one being a group of happy young people, enjoying themselves and having fun. We would then create a second
scene showing the change into a sad and depressed group of people in which nobody has jobs and everybody is unhappy.
For our first

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