Zusammenfassung der Ressource
'Blood Brothers' : themes
and quotations
- Social injustice
- The police man
- Threatens Mrs Johnstone with the
courts however tells Mr Lyons to
just dock Edwards pocket money
- "He was just about to commit a very
serious crime" contrasts with "it was
just a simple prank Mr Lyons"
- Mickey's upbringing
compared to Edwards
- "A silver tray to haved meals on a
bike with both wheels on"
- Mickey is
suspended for not
answering a
question whereas
Edward is
suspended for
refusing to take of
the locket
- Shows that the punishments
are given for smaller things in
more expensive schools and
higher educations
- Superstition
- "Never put new shoes on the
table y' never know what'll
happen"
- Shows she doesn't like omens and
is highly aware of them
- Mrs Lyons replies with "you mean
you're superstitious"
- Shocking when later in the play
she screams at Mr Lyons puts
shoes on the table
- shows everyone can become a victim to superstiton
- "if you tell them you will
kill them"
- Using Mrs Johnstone's fears
against her
- Social class
- Mrs Johnstone
- Is so poor that she has to be
bribed and give one of her
newborns away, just to keep her
childeren fed
- Control
- Mrs and Mr Lyons
- "We thought a move"
- where it is actually Mrs Lyons who has made the
decision to try and "protect" Edward
- trying to keep kim away from
Mrs Johnstone
- Mickey
- Has no control
over his life/all
determined by his
"superiors"
- "'Gis a sweet"
- Shows he doesn't have the same
privelages as Edward
- "I didn't sort anything out,
you did! you and Councillor
Eddie Lyons"
- Shows he is ungateful of Eddie's help
- "I wish I was our sammy"
- Shows he idolises his older
brother and would live his life
by Sammy's example and not
by his own