Compare how Willy Russell portrays the two mothers in ‘Blood Brothers’. Account for the different reactions the audience will have to the two women throughout the play.

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October 11, 2012

 

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‘Oh God. Never put new shoes on a table Mrs Lyons.’ At the beginning of the play, I feel sorry for Mrs Johnston because she has lots of children and loves them all equally but she simply cannot support them financially as a cleaner. How she has let herself get into this position is extremely sad but is also a social comment by Willy Russell on society today...
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Russell sets Mrs Johnston up as the extreme example of the benefit living, single parent family who live with and by the hand of the social. ‘The welfare’s already been onto me. They say I’m incapable of controlling the kids I got.’ I do feel a bit angry at Mrs Johnston when she gave Eddie away to Mrs Lyons but when I see how Mrs Lyons manipulated her and made her think that she was doing the right thing, I feel sorry for her...
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