Comparing and contrasting Blood Brothers with Grease

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Sabrina Bagria

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                                  Blood Brothers and Grease

        I have studied plays, two of them being Blood Brothers and Grease. I will be comparing and contrasting Blood Brothers with Grease, both of the plays are set in the restrictive 1950’s.

        Blood Brothers is about twin brothers and their mother who are forced through poverty to give away on of the sons. One stays with his mother, a poor cleaner, and grows up in poor surroundings. The other is given to the mother's boss, a woman who can't have children with her husband, and is rich.

        The play deals with how both the mother and the children behave in the years after this deal. We see the growth of the boys and how their paths cross, all the time shrouded in superstition and fear. From the moment she gives up Edward, Mrs Johnston regrets it but realises, too late that she has sealed undesirable fate for the boys when she is told:

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"You do know what they say about twins, separated at birth? They say that if either twin ever learns he was once one of a pair they shall both immediately die." The play ends in a very sad way, with both the twins dieing.

        Grease is about a group of kids in their graduate year, the main characters are Sandy Dee who is a goody two shoes Australian girl and Danny Zuko an ultra cool gang leader of the T-birds. They fall in love over the summer but when they go back to school Danny’s acting as if he ...

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