Blood Brothers Quotes - Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons

Blood Brothers Quotes - Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons

1. Raising the child(ren)

   • Nature vs Nurture
     • Mrs Johnstone
       • Has multiple children
         • More children to look after
           • Has to devote time to each of them
             • Not a lot of time
       • Only can buy essentials
         • Children don't have much to play with
     • Mrs Lyons
       • Only has one child - Edward
         • All time devoted to Edward
           • Spent money on him
             • Has a lot of money from social class
     • Class has affected their lives/upbringing
       • Education values for children
       • Work

2. 'He told me I was sexier than Marilyn Monroe'

   • Female sexuality or vulerability
   • Frequently compared to her
     • A woman who was dubbed a perfect figure at that time
   • Motif
   • Her drepression is much like Mockey

3. 'By the time I was twenty-five, I looked like forty-two'

   • Mrs Johnstone had a hard life
   • She was expected to have children
     • Women in that time were expected to stay at home
       • Historical context

4. 'Bright new day, we're going away'

   • Council houses
     • Skelmerdale
   • Reunit with the Lyons
   • A song
     • A reoccuring thing throughout the play
       • Play/Musical
   • Foreboding
     • The Jonstones move not long after the Lyons
       • Only in Act two so expected to move to the same place

5. 'the mother, so cruel there's a stone in place of her heart'

   • It makes the viewer believe a fake statement
   • It starts the story off with a lie and then another scene
     • Viewers don't know what to believe
   • Describing the wrong person
     • Should be Mrs Lyons

6. Turning away the other sibling

   • 'Don't you ever come round here again'
     • Suprised to see him
     • Scared?
       • Supersitition
         • Fearful that they'd die
           • Hope to make him leave him alone
     • Mrs Jonhstone to Edward
       • Not polite
   • 'I'm very sorry, but it's Edward's bedtime'
     • Polite
     • Protective/shelters Edward
       • He has a bed time
       • Trying to keep him away from Mickey
         • Bad influence
   • Parallel scenes
     • Structure
     • Both the same dispite class
       • They're still brothers despite being seperated

7. 'How can you possibly avoid some of them being put into care?'

   • Manipulating her
   • Uses Mrs Johnston'es working classs status against her
   • Uses this to persuade Mrs Johnstone into giving up one of the twins

8. 'You know what they say about twins secretly parted?'

   • Superstition
     • A reoccuring topic/theme
     • Mrs Lyons creates on to manipulate Mrs Jonhstone
   • It actually comes true
     • God like act?
     • Mrs Lyons and Mrs Johnstone both contribute to this
   • Using Mrs Johnstone's beliefs againat her

9. 'has a lethal-looking kitchen knife in her hand'

   • Stage directions
   • Has lost her sanity by this stage
   • Tries to attack Mrs Johnstone
     • Believes that she is following her
       • Paranoid