Blood Brothers - In this assignment I will discuss how fate and superstition contribute to the final Tragedy. I will also consider other elements in the play, such as social class, education, poverty, and coincidence, which are highly significant to the s

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Madeline Kennedy

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In this assignment I will discuss how fate and superstition contribute to the final Tragedy. I will also consider other elements in the play, such as social class, education, poverty, and coincidence, which are highly significant to the story.

GCSE Assignment: Blood Brothers

In the play there are many references to the devil and the bogeyman, both figures representing evil and control.

 Most of the characters are strongly influenced by these; the “kids,” who believe in the bogey man, and incorporate him into their games, “will he get me mummy?” and their mothers, who are influenced by the devil.

The Narrator, who plays an integral part in the play, can be interpreted as the devil or bogeyman, following Mickey Eddie and Linda around and taunting their mothers,

 “Now you know the devils got your number” in this manner controlling the main characters and making the events (stated in the prologue) come to pass. The Narrator adapts the roles of many minor characters reinforcing the idea that the narrator is in control, because he is featured in all the significant turning points of the story, taking the parts of the milkman, gynaecologist, bus driver and the police man.

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The narrator is an ambiguous character, so he can also be portrayed as neutral, just telling and observing the story, or someone understanding and sympathetic, watching the events unfold.

The prologue introduces the play, making the audience feel like the story is already written and Mickey and Eddie are destined to die.

“An’ did you never hear how the Johnstones died?”

This is yet another reason to believe that fate is in control. However, there are powerful arguments to suggest that it is more coincidence and class that causes the deaths of the twins, for example, when ...

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