Part 1
Through the play there are a lot of characters that get involved like Linda. She is Mickey’s girlfriend, but then cheats on him with Edward ‘Their smiles fade as they look at each other. Suddenly they kiss’. Before this Linda was saying she loved Edward but not as much as she loved Mickey. Then there’s Sammy, Mickey’s older brother. He gets Mickey into trouble a lot of times. ‘An alarm bell is heard, followed by an explosion from the gun’. Here Sammy and Mickey are trying to do work but shoot an innocent man in his own home. There is also Mrs Johnstone. She is the birth mother of both the twins but had to give away Edward. ‘Don’t tell me which one. Just take him, take him!’. Here Mrs Johnstone is telling Mrs Lyons to take a baby. Finally there is Mrs Lyons, she is Mrs Johnstone’s boss and she also bullied Mrs Johnstone to giving her a baby. ‘Give one to me’. Mrs Lyons is telling Mrs Johnstone to give her a baby or else.
Part 2
Before the boys first meeting Mickey gets in trouble for playing up near Edwards house. ‘We’re down the other end, near the pig houses in the park’. Mrs Johnstone doesn’t want Mickey to play up there because Edward lives up there. When Mickey has had his telling off he goes outside and Edward is playing near Mickey’s house and that is where the twins meet for the first time. Willy Russell has put hidden meanings into this play like society is wrong, and so are classes. He thinks that people shouldn’t be split up into order from richest to poorest and vice versa. The dramatic devices used by Willy Russell such as stage directions are a good way to show what is going on, on the stage.
Part 3
When the boys meet for the first time it is comic, because Mickey is swearing and being cheeky where as Edward is being kind and saying expressions like ‘smashing’ and ‘You say super words’. This makes the audience laugh and enjoy the fact that the twins have met each other. On the other hand the boys’ first meeting is tragic because they are standing face to face but they don’t really know who they are. ‘An…an’ you would look after him, wouldn’t y?’. This shows Mrs Johnstone has given Mrs Lyons the baby and is begging her to look after him. When the boys’ cut their hands and shook them, this had a dramatic event because when they did it they called themselves ‘Blood Brothers’.
Conclusion
The boys’ first meeting was comic and tragic because it was humorous and entertaining yet sad and miserable at times. Willy Russell shows in this play that he rebel’s against society and classes and I agree with him people shouldn’t be separated into groups because of there wealth. If something changed in the play, like the twins not meeting I think they would both still be alive and Edward would be really wealthy. I enjoyed reading this book it was very entertaining and I’ve learned a lot about fate, superstition and classes.
