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Blood Brothers Quotes - Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons
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GCSE English Mind Map on Blood Brothers Quotes - Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons, created by Bethany Lewis on 11/06/2016.
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Blood Brothers Quotes - Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons
Raising the child(ren)
Nature vs Nurture
Mrs Johnstone
Has multiple children
More children to look after
Has to devote time to each of them
Not a lot of time
Only can buy essentials
Children don't have much to play with
Mrs Lyons
Only has one child - Edward
All time devoted to Edward
Spent money on him
Has a lot of money from social class
Class has affected their lives/upbringing
Education values for children
Work
'He told me I was sexier than Marilyn Monroe'
Female sexuality or vulerability
Frequently compared to her
A woman who was dubbed a perfect figure at that time
Motif
Her drepression is much like Mockey
'By the time I was twenty-five, I looked like forty-two'
Mrs Johnstone had a hard life
She was expected to have children
Women in that time were expected to stay at home
Historical context
'Bright new day, we're going away'
Council houses
Skelmerdale
Reunit with the Lyons
A song
A reoccuring thing throughout the play
Play/Musical
Foreboding
The Jonstones move not long after the Lyons
Only in Act two so expected to move to the same place
'the mother, so cruel there's a stone in place of her heart'
It makes the viewer believe a fake statement
It starts the story off with a lie and then another scene
Viewers don't know what to believe
Describing the wrong person
Should be Mrs Lyons
Turning away the other sibling
'Don't you ever come round here again'
Suprised to see him
Scared?
Supersitition
Fearful that they'd die
Hope to make him leave him alone
Mrs Jonhstone to Edward
Not polite
'I'm very sorry, but it's Edward's bedtime'
Polite
Protective/shelters Edward
He has a bed time
Trying to keep him away from Mickey
Bad influence
Parallel scenes
Structure
Both the same dispite class
They're still brothers despite being seperated
'How can you possibly avoid some of them being put into care?'
Manipulating her
Uses Mrs Johnston'es working classs status against her
Uses this to persuade Mrs Johnstone into giving up one of the twins
'You know what they say about twins secretly parted?'
Superstition
A reoccuring topic/theme
Mrs Lyons creates on to manipulate Mrs Jonhstone
It actually comes true
God like act?
Mrs Lyons and Mrs Johnstone both contribute to this
Using Mrs Johnstone's beliefs againat her
'has a lethal-looking kitchen knife in her hand'
Stage directions
Has lost her sanity by this stage
Tries to attack Mrs Johnstone
Believes that she is following her
Paranoid
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