Of course‚ it varies depending on which version you read. Ok well‚ Mrs Lyons employs Mrs Johnston to work for her. Mrs Lyons can’t have children‚ but Mrs Johnston (Known as the mother) has too many. When Mrs J finds out she is going to have twins she is upset as she can’t afford them. Mrs Lyons persuades Mrs J to let her adopt one of the twins. Mrs Lyons is very aware of her social and financial position and she uses it to influence Mrs J. (She offers to pay her for the baby at one point
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Blood Brothers is a play written by Willy Russell about twin brothers whose mother was tricked into giving one twin to Mrs Lyons‚ a rich woman who can’t have children. Mrs Johnston keeps a child and raises him on a council estate with 7 siblings. The twins become best friends but their mothers push them apart. However they continue to be friends up until adulthood. This is a classic tale of nature versus nurture and it examines the debates surrounding fate‚ family and motherly love. The two women
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Everyone has morals. The usual ones are: Don’t lie‚ cheat‚ or steal. The swipe in "I’m a fool" by Sherwood Anderson does not seem to possess these morals throughout the story‚ although he does seem to feel remorseful at the end of the story. He lies‚ cheats‚ and steals‚ though not in a way most consider normal. In "I’m a fool" the swipe lies. He lies about who he is‚ where he is from‚ and what he does. He tells Miss Elinor Woodbury‚ Mr. Wilbur Wessen‚ and Miss Lucy Wessen that he was "Walter Mathers
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A major theme in ‘Our Day Out’ is the lack of education and opportunity for young people in the inner city. Using scenes from the play‚ show how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of this theme The lack of education and opportunity affects young people in inner cities like Liverpool‚ these young people have never been given the chance to have a good education‚ and therefore they were just stuck in a states school‚ where there aren’t many people who care what grades they get and what they
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Educating Rita by Willy Russell explores the relationship between the two characters involved in the play‚ Frank and Rita over a time span‚ of several months. A variety of themes are explored as Rita‚ a working class Liverpudlian‚ aspires to a higher social and academic level so that she may have choices‚ with Frank‚ a disillusioned and failed poet as her teacher. As Rita progresses‚ Russell uses a range of dramatic techniques and tensions between the two characters to explore themes of the personal
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‘That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world – a beautiful little fool.’ In the light of this comment‚ compare and contrast representations of femininity in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby As A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby were both written by men‚ it is to be expected that they meet the generalised representations of women found in most famous texts‚ the vast majority of which were written by men. However‚ these two texts also explore the ideas of femininity
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Our Day out by Willie Russell is an energetic and humorous play‚ about a school trip to Conwy castle. The ’progress class’‚ a class for illiterate children‚ are on a trip to Wales where the liberal Mrs Kay and the strict Mr Briggs have completely different ideas about the day should be organised. Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs have two distinct personalities that clash frequently throughout the play and Willie Russell presents both in an interesting and comical way in his drama. Mrs Kay is a benevolent
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of drama contributes to the characterization of Willy Loman‚ and Biff Loman Willy Loman He knows that the outdoors is source of happiness‚ however he can’t take the risk of financial instability because he is a coward. Just like when he was too scared to take a risk to go to Alaska with Ben‚ to search for his faither. Willy feels as if his goals must be extreme‚ he doesn’t accept simplistic goals. He has the wrong idea of success Biff Loman Throughout act 1 we see that Biff really wants
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character conflicts in the play with a prophet named Tiresias and his brother in-law Creon. In the play Death of a Salesman‚ Willy Loman stands out as the main character and has the tragic downfall. Willy’s mental disease causes trouble for him throughout the play with his family and friends. After examining the tragedies of Oedipus the King and Death of a Salesman‚ Willy Loman stands out as more of a tragic figure because the average person can relate to his everyday life. Arthur Miller’s opinion
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Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is looked upon as a paradigm of modern tragedy by many casual readers and scholars alike. His portrayal of Willy Loman‚ an aging salesman who must come to face the deterioration of both his family and career‚ stands as a powerful illustration of the failed American Dream. Yet‚ Millers tragedy is different from most that have come before him. That is‚ its protagonist does not seem to resemble the heroic figures that have come to characterize the genre. In his work
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