Drama-blood brothers

Question 1

Mrs Johnstone-key charecteristics

Answer 1

-maternal
-Impulsive
-resilliant

Question 2

Mrs Johnstone- key scenes

Answer 2

1) Are y’that desperate to have a baby’- deciding to give her child away compassionate, empathetic
2)yeh. but keep it a secret eddie? just our secret between you an me’- locket symbolises their connection, maternal insticts and impulsive tendancies
3)nothin, nothing you bought me off once before’- knife scene shows resilliance and strength and maturity

Question 3

Mrs lyons key traits

Answer 3

• desperate/lonely
• manipulative
• driven

Question 4

Mrs Lyons key scenes

Answer 4

1)i believe that an adopted child can become ones own’- lonely desperate for children quite vulnerable- priveleged
2)you will kill them- manipulative playing on her beliefs on mrs johnstone
3)I curse you witch- manipulative, frantic and violent

Question 5

Mickey key traits

Answer 5

• energetic
• spirited
• playful
• cheeky
• curious

Question 6

Mickey key scenes

Answer 6

1) Age 7- y’know like the F’ word- wants to show off and seem cool compared to eddie
2) Age 18- ‘ I suppose you still are one arent you’ Mickey is realisising how different there lives are now and how much more priveleged eddie is than him
3) So i could be invisible’- pills have changed his future becomes frantic and full of rage

Question 7

Eddie- key traits

Answer 7

• polite
  -sweet
• well mannered
• generous

Question 8

Eddie key scenes

Answer 8

1) Age 7- take as many as youd like’- generosity well educated proper
2)’ you can take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut’- gained confidence rebellious
3) tilt my hat to the world and say screw you- not street smart doesnt understand that mickey cant do that

Question 9

Blood brothers context- Aims

Answer 9

• to shownus that there are disadvantages to poor and working class
• the failure to suceed in life is not because of a lack of ability but a lack of oppurtunity
• Willy russell wants us to ask ourselves that question for the 21st centuary

Question 10

Blood brothers context- Liverpool

Answer 10

• because of the position on the river mersey was a prosperous seaport in the 19th centuary
  -in the 20th centuary the silting the river was a place of financial depression

Question 11

Blood brothers context-poverty

Answer 11

• clear established link between poverty and education system

Question 12

Blood brothers context- views of the time

Answer 12

• divorce was uncommen and this is the reason the neighbours might disapprove of her
• people strong disapproved of sex before marriage this is why mrs johnstone has to marry quickly

Question 13

Blood brothers context- unemployment

Answer 13

• the play was set at a point when the factories were closing down
• reached 25% in 1980s

Question 14

Blood brothers context-Education

Answer 14

• Only few children could enter even if they got a place there wasnt a guarrentee of a qualification
• the pass mark would be deliberatly high
  1945 education act had made grammer schools fee working class children had to pass the 11+ to go

Question 15

Blood brothers context- Grammar schools

Answer 15

-people take o levels then either do a levels or leave school and get a job
- for fewer universitys places then so most would go into umployment after school