Introduction to Blood Brothers: completed
- Created by: Janelle M Massey
- Created on: 05-09-18 20:41
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- Introduction
- Mickey was raised by their working-class mother
- Willy Russell uses Mickey and Edward to explore ideas about how social class affects people's lives
- Blood Brothers is a play about twin brothers, Edward and Mickey
- Edward was secretly given away at birth and raised in a middle-class family
- Society of the time
- There was a strong class divide in Britain at this time.
- Middle classes had more opportunities than the working class
- This was reflected through education, job prospects, and wealth
- Middle classes had more opportunities than the working class
- The play was written in the early 1980s, but it's set sometime between 1960s and 1980s
- The Characters are fictional but are used to comment on the class divide
- There was a strong class divide in Britain at this time.
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