Social Worlds in Blood Brothers, by Willy Russell :: Blood Brothers Willy Russell Social Class Essays

Social Worlds in Blood Br early(a)sExplore how the theme of different social worlds is presented inBlood Brothers by Willy Russell. What comments might Russell be reservation about his twinsYou should write about Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons Edward and Mickey The Policeman The NarratorThis essay is about the play Blood Brothers by Willy Russell. I willbe discussing the two main female characters in the play, MrsJohnstone and Mrs Lyons and how they take part in the important eventsof the play. I am also going to look at other aspects, like theirsocial statuses and how each(prenominal) receive different treatment al unitedlyfrom others surrounding them. This will help me evaluate how WillyRussell has presented different social worlds to the audience, and howthey are seen. in like manner I am going to be seeing how Willy Russellsbackground could possibly affect his views.Blood Brothers is the tale of two twin brothers who are in secretseparated at birth and are forced to live very dif ferent lives apartfrom each other. Upon growing up these two brothers, upon chance, meeteach other and strike up a friendship together, while all along beingtotally ignorant to their fraternity. This can only end in tragedy, asthis terrible secret being kept from them cannot stay hidden for ever,so in the end both brothers end up dying together in an inevitableblood bath, upon finding out about the hidden secret.Because the play appears to have been set in the 1970s/ 1980s,around Liverpool, there is a lot about striking and major redundanciesin it. Also, about people pathetic out of the city to the country (i.e.Skelmersdale), for a better life and proper job prospects. This kind ofsituation seems to emulate what happened to the director Willy Russellduring his childhood, as he too moved from the very muchindustrialised area around Liverpool. Upon moving out into the countryhe says that compared to Huyton it was paradise which seems to showhis dislike of industrial areas such as Hu yton.At the beginning of the play there is a prologue which is intentional toshow how fate is meant to play an important role ion the play. Theprologue is the ending of the play read out at the beginning. So, ingiving the audience the ending at the beginning they begin to feel thestorys elements locking together as the play wears on. This makes forthe audience in having a terrible awareness of what is to happen, sotragically, to the brothers and also gives a very strong sense offates hand in the disaster, which reinforces the importance of