Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Blood Brothers
- Characters
- Mrs
Johnstone
Anmerkungen:
- Mrs Johnstone is poor, working class, superstitious, has seen better days and is easily manipulated by Mrs Lyons.
- Can't afford any more bad luck
- 7 kids and 2 more on the way
- "Having babies is like clockwork to me"
- 25,looks 42
- 35,looks 50
- Mrs Lyons
Anmerkungen:
- Manipulates Mrs Johnstone into giving her one of the twins by using the lack of education and the belief in superstition.
- Manipulation
- Mrs J not 100% sure
- "couldn't I keep them for a few more days"
- Middle/upper
class
- Wants a
baby
- Can't have her own child
- Her big house is for the kids she wanted
- Mr Lyons
- Often absent from the family
- "The house is your domain"
- Prioritizes work
- Unaware of Edward not actually being his son
- Mickey
- "Born and died on the selfsame day"
- Wants to be like Edward
- Linda
- Mickey's girlfriend
- Cheats on him with Edward
- Both don't really have fathers
- Edward
- Themes
- Rich vs poor& class divide
- Poverty cycle
- Prejudice of policeman
- Nature vs nurture
- Superstition
- Shoes on
table
Anmerkungen:
- "New shoes on the table, take them off"
Mrs Johnstone ->Mrs Lyons
- Swear on the bible
- Giving away child for financial gain
- Guns
- Foreshadows the deaths of Mickey and Edward
- "The whole thing's just a game"
- Sammy
- Violent and aggresive
- Gets Mickey arrested
- Context
- Set in Liverpool in the 1960s
- Lots of poverty
- 25% unemployment
- Everything controlled by the rich
- Written in the 1980s
- Willy Russell
- Narrator
- Reminds us of the fate of the twins
- Superstition