Response To Blood Brothers By Willy Russell :: English Literature

Response To Blood Brothers By Willy Russell Response Phase The appreciation to the story Willy Russell wrote a fantastic and well written play called â€Å"Blood Brothers† it shows details of its time and history such as the government ruled by Margaret Thatcher and the economic crash. The rough times in Liverpool and the struggle for money. â€Å"Blood Brothers which is set in Liverpool tells a story of twins born on the same day and died on the same day but separated at birth. Mrs. Johnstone, a superstitious, loving mother of seven, soon to be nine has to give up one of her children because of the welfare and money problems. Though she can’t bear to do it, she gives up one of her babies to her employee who’s desperate for a baby. For three decades, she has to see one her children grow up in the hands of another woman. Mrs. Lyons has the perfect life. Perfect house, perfect husband and perfect looks except for one thing she really wants, a child. One day her employer says she wouldn’t know how to cope with another child and she had a great idea, she would take one of her twins and she did with the help of an oath on the bible. Now that she has everything she wanted she couldn’t be happier. Until her son meets his unknown twin brother. She soon starts to go mad and orders her son not to see his good friend anymore but he still does. She then moves to the country and her mind becomes stable again until she finds out her sons twin lives right down the street. What Eddie doesn’t know is that he was given up at birth by his biological mother and given to what he thinks is his mother. When he is seven he bumps into a boy called Mickey Johnstone. Eddie thinks that Mickey is fantastic and everything about him is funny and exciting and as a result they become best friends and blood brothers also because they have the same birthday. What Eddie doesn’t know is that Mickey is his twin brother. As they were tried to be separated by their parents, it just led them to wanting to each other more. Separated for a while, they meet again but Eddie is immediately attracted to Mickey’s fancy Linda. When Mickey goes to prison he becomes very paranoid about Linda and Eddie, which has dreadful consequences for both of them. Mickey, youngest of seven is a wild street-wise kid. Though he hasn’t had a great life with the fact that he hasn’t got any money and lives