Describe in detail the techniques, which Willy Russell uses in ‘Blood Brothers’ to add depth and interest to his play and entertain his audience.

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Stephen Perry                28/04/07

Mrs. Wren

Yr. 10 Guiness                

Task: Describe in detail the techniques, which Willy Russell uses in ‘Blood Brothers’ to add depth and interest to his play and entertain his audience.

Target: Write a formal, literacy essay, using individually chosen quotations.

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers is about a pair of twins who are born to a mother who can’t afford to keep them.  Then there is Mrs. Lyons who can not have any children for reasons unknown.  Mrs. Johnstone (the mother of the twins) gets a job cleaning Mrs. Lyons house. As the days of cleaning wear on Mrs. Johnstone's predicament becomes apparent to Mrs. Lyons and she offers to take one of the babies’s away from her.  Mrs. Johnstone agrees and gives Mrs. Lyons one of the babies.   Mickey  (Mrs. Johnstone’s son) and Edward (Mrs. Lyons son) grow up and at the age of seven they become quite good friends. They continued being good friends until the age of 18 when Edward want off to university and when he came back Mickey had lost his job and shortly after went to jail.  The fact that Edward had so much and Mickey had so little really got to him and he went in to town to shoot Edward.  Just as Mickey decides that he can’t shoot Edward.  Mrs. Johnstone comes in and tells them that they are brothers.  This pushes Mickey over the edge and he shoots Edward and then gets shot by the police.

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Willy Russell wrote Blood Brothers using a lot of interesting language. Some of the way that he does this is to use the continuing references to guns throughout the play.  He also has two different classes in the play so they speak in totally different ways.  Willy Russell makes good use of the narrator by showing that he is always there.  He has a very big part in both Act One and Two constantly saying what the audience is thinking.

One of the recurring techniques that Willy Russell uses is reference to superstition.  He uses it all the ...

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