Response To Blood Brothers By Willy Russell :: English Literature

Response To Blood Brothers By Willy RussellResponse PhaseThe appreciation to the pointWilly Russell wrote a fantastic and well written play called BloodBrothers it shows details of its time and history such as thegovernment ruled by Margaret Thatcher and the sparing crash. Therough times in Liverpool and the struggle for money.Blood Brothers which is set in Liverpool tells a story of twins bornon the same day and died on the same day but separated at birth.Mrs. Johnstone, a superstitious, loving mother of seven, soon to benine has to give up one of her children because of the wellbeing andmoney problems. Though she cant bear to do it, she gives up one ofher babies to her employee whos desperate for a baby. For threedecades, she has to see one her children bring up up in the hands ofanother woman.Mrs. Lyons has the perfect life. Perfect house, perfect husband andperfect looks except for one thing she really wants, a child. wholeness dayher employer says she wouldnt know how to co pe with another child andshe had a great idea, she would take one of her twins and she did withthe help of an oath on the bible. directly that she has everything shewanted she couldnt be happier. Until her son meets his unknown twinbrother. She soon starts to go mad and orders her son not to see hisgood friend any longer but he still does. She then moves to the countryand her mind becomes stable again until she finds out her sons twinlives right down the street.What Eddie doesnt know is that he was given up at birth by hisbiological mother and given to what he thinks is his mother. When heis seven he bumps into a boy called paddy field Johnstone. Eddie thinksthat Mickey is fantastic and everything about him is funny andexciting and as a result they become best friends and blood brothersalso because they have the same birthday. What Eddie doesnt know isthat Mickey is his twin brother. As they were tried to be separated bytheir parents, it just led them to wanting to each other more .Separated for a while, they meet again but Eddie is immediatelyattracted to Mickeys fancy Linda. When Mickey goes to prison hebecomes very paranoid about Linda and Eddie, which has dreadfulconsequences for some(prenominal) of them.Mickey, youngest of seven is a wild street-wise kid. Though he hasnthad a great life with the fact that he hasnt got any money and lives