Themes Flashcards
Superstition motifs/songs
'’Devils got your number’’
-Repeated mention of the twins fate
superstition [Mrs J]
'’new shoes on the table’’
-Most superstitious character
Superstition [Mrs L]
-Mrs Lyons uses superstition to manipulate Mrs J
‘‘if either twin learns that he was once a pair, they shall both immediately die.’’
Dramatic irony as we already know that they both die, it is mentioned in the prologue.
Superstition [Narrator]
At the end of the play;
‘‘And do we blame superstition for what came to pass? or is this what we, the English, have come to know as class.’’
Didactic
thinking bigger than just the characters in the play.
Secrets & Lies
[Mrs Johnstone ]
'’Twin’s gone to heaven’’
-Poverty/ money
‘easy terms’ song
‘livin on the never never’ song
secrets and lies
[Mrs J + Mrs L]
-To Ed and Mickey = dramatic irony] aabout being related
secrets and lies
[Mrs L]
-Superstition to Mrs J
‘‘If either twin learns they were once a pair they will both immediately die’’
secrets and lies
[Edward]
[To Mrs L] ‘‘its a secret, everybody has secrets, don’t you have secrets?’’
}-dramatic irony
-foreshadowing
secrets and lies
[Linda]
-gets edward to secretly help mickey
Secrets and lies
[Edward]
-secretly loves Linda
CONTEXT
-Margret thatcher was pm
-economic struggles
-80s
-high unemployment
-high redundancies
CONTEXT; POLITICAL DIATRIBE
in his political diatribe, blood brothers, willy russel uses/shows..
-cost of living; ‘shrinking pound’
mrs J loaning money and buying out the catalogue
-Steryotypical gender roles, family life=patriarchy
-Huge class divide
Growing up
[song, kids game]
-gun motif
- ‘‘if you cross your fingers and count to ten..’’
- contrasts to the ending where ed and mickey get shot and die.
Growing up
[mickey]
-‘‘I had to grow up’’ you didn’t have to.
-‘‘But youre still a kid. an i wish i could be as well..but i cant, because while no one was looking i grew up.’’
