Exploring Elements of Blood Brothers

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Exploring Elements of Blood Brothers 'Blood Brothers' has many features that appeal to its audiences. The play has a very strong plot, with many dramatic incidents. Doing this makes the play very interesting, and helps keep a quick pace, therefore keeping the audiences attention. ===================================================================== There have been many themes that have interested audiences of 'Blood Brothers'. The theme are particularly like is the one which expresses the friendship between Mickey, Edward and Linda; and the ways their friendship alters through the play. ===================================================================== I feel the purpose of the play is to show us how the social divide of life, that we all experience, can have a dramatic affect on many different aspects of everyone's lives. Here in particular we can see that it affects the friendship between Mickey, Edward and Linda. We can see this affects their relationship because, at the beginning we can see that they have to go against what their parents have told them, to be able to meet up and play out together. We are shown this when Edward goes and plays with Mickey and Linda, regardless of what his mother has told him not to do. We are shown how the divide is against them, when Edward comes back from university for Christmas, and Mickey tells him to go away because he has some problems. We can see that whilst Edward has being enjoying himself at university, Mickey has had to grow up quickly and take on a lot of responsibility. Unfortunately Edward can't see this why this should affect them having a Christmas party and the friendship between them breaks down. Here we can see how the social divide has come between Mickey and Edward. Looking at the relationship between Mickey and Linda we can see it develops a lot through the play. At the beginning they start of as just friends. As the play moves along we can see this develops into much more eventually they marry. We are shown how it develops through funny and serious scenes throughout the play.

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