Blood Brothers is set in the inner city of Liverpool.

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Rachael McLuskie 11PC

Blood Brothers Coursework

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Blood Brothers is set in the inner city of Liverpool.

Liverpool at this particular time would have been quite a ruff, and where many single mothers and poor families lived.

The docks were getting rundown and as a result there was less employment as jobs were not as plentiful as they had once been, and with growing unemployment there came other social problems.

               The play Blood Brothers is about two twin brothers separated at birth.

There are five main characters in this play; Eddie and Mickey (the two twins) Mrs Johnstone (the birth mother) Mrs Lyons, and Linda.

One of the twins (Eddie) is given away at birth to Mrs Lyons a rich lady whom Mrs Johnstone works for. Mrs Lyons is unable to bear a child and so is given one of the boys (Eddie). Mrs Johnstone gives her the child as she cannot afford to keep another child in her household.

Throughout the play we see each of boys growing up and becoming very close friends. We see them both go through the hardships in life (mostly Mickey).

In the end of the play we see both of the twins suffer and die, in what is an extremely powerful ending.

             Russell uses this plot to show us/the audience how hard and unfair life can be.

He does this by contrasting the differences between the two families. One of the obvious factors that he points out to us is money.

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            Mickey lives in an extremely diminutive sized house in a rundown area of Liverpool. Mickeys mother Mrs Johnstone is in major debt and because of this Mickey isn’t used to things like toys and sweets. He’s used to broken toys, and his sweets being urinated on by his older brother Sammy.

We can see that sweets are a luxury for him as we see in this particular section. Here we see Eddie offering him a sweet and Mickey replying with “are you soft?” we can almost immediately tell he is not used to people ...

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