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    Blood Brother - Mickey

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    How does Russell present Edward in ‘Blood Brothers’? During the play‚ Russell presents Edward in many different ways throughout his life‚ showing the contrasts that he shares with Mickey – even though they are carbon copies of one another. There are many different points in ‘Blood Brothers’ where Edward is presented in a different way‚ from his childhood‚ to school life and then when he is reunited with Mickey after university. Russell does present him as ‘soft’‚ especially in his child hood‚ although

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    Timothy Winters What effect does this poem have on you‚ the reader? The effect this poem has on me is it makes me realise how lucky and grateful I am because I can afford things and have a lovely life style. However Timothy Winters has the opposite‚ he is very poor and can’t really afford anything. The poem is based on a little boy called Timothy Winters who is very poor and can’t afford much. The statement for the poem is that Timothy Winters is a poor little boy who cannot afford much and

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    Blood Brothers Analysis

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    Blood Brothers is a very intricately crafted play‚ full of techniques and themes that create a complex and brilliant piece. During Blood brothers there are a variety of relationships between different characters. These relationships are portrayed using many different techniques‚ which are subtle and clever. For example‚ the relationship between Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons is shown to be quite distant‚ which is very realistic of the women’s different status at that time. This is presented through

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    Blood Brothers is a popular play by Willy Russell. It was written and first performed in 1981. The play tells of twin brothers‚ separated at birth‚ with one kept in a low-class family and the other is adopted into a wealthy family. The characters of Mrs Johnston and Mrs Lyons‚ the mothers‚ are total opposites. Mrs Johnston is a struggling‚ single mother of seven‚ with another two on the way‚ whereas Mrs Lyons is a privileged‚ yet childless‚ married woman. The opening scene started with a funeral

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    The play ‘Blood Brothers’ is written by the playwright Willy Russell‚ who explores the advantages and disadvantages of growing up in a working-class or a first-class environment in mid 20th century Liverpool. Russell uses his experiences‚ growing up in working-class Liverpool‚ to cover how the class system determined your life chances. This is explored through issues of injustice and socialism throughout. ‘Blood Brothers’ is not a typical musical‚ being of a naturalistic style‚ but‚ as Willy Russell

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    Blood Brothers Twins

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    Look closely at how Mickey and Edward behave here. What does it reveal about them at this point in the play? Mickey and Edward are first introduced in Act One as seven year old children. This is a key scene in the play as it is the first time the audience witness the twins and their behaviour together since their separation at birth. During this is scene many contrasts are created and displayed by the two children‚ mainly through the characters speech and mannerisms. Upon their introduction

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    Blood Brothers Essay The past few weeks I have been reading the play Blood Brothers written by Willy Russell. It is the story of twin brothers who are separated at birth. Wealthy Mrs Lyons‚ who is not able to have her own children‚ blackmails her maid‚ Mrs Johnstone into giving her one of her new born twins. Mrs Lyons says all Miss Johnston’s other children well benefit‚ as the Johnston’s have little money. The women agree that it should be their secret and no one else will ever know the truth

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    Blood Brothers. “Blood Brothers” was released in 1983. It was written by Willy Russel. The play is about an important message that Willy Russel is trying to convey. The message is about class. It is also about superstition‚ how it effects the lives of people and how it effects a persons personality. In the play there are two twins separated at birth. There called Mikey and Edward. One of the twins is given away to a higher class family (Edward)‚ a wealthier family‚ a family giving more opportunity

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    Blood Brothers’ Documentary Response Introduction This documentary response encompasses the assessed work on the chosen stimulus‚ ‘Blood Brothers’. The text provoked different responses displayed varyingly across the group. Underlying themes which arose were social background‚ the individual within society‚ friendship and education‚ and growing up and money. Essentially‚ I have learnt that the play is an exploration of the above themes surrounding an embedded theme of love and the risks and

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    Drama for the live performance we went to see Blood brothers on 6th February 2012. We went as a class to the evening performance which was at the Sunderland Empire. The play was written by Willy Russell‚ from Liverpool in 1981. The play is about the differences in social class between a pair of twins that were separated at birth. Mrs Johnstone gave up one of her twins to Mrs Lyons (who couldn’t have children) Mrs Johnstone is a suspicious woman so Mrs Lyons made her swear on the bible that if the twins

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