In the play Blood Brothers, Willy Russell hangs his story on the superstition that Mrs Lyons uses to trap Mrs Johnstone in silence: that superstition which the is, that should Mickey and Edward discover their brotherhood, they will both die.
We see a huge contrast between Mrs Lyons and Mrs Johnstone. At the beginning of the play, the narrator describes the Mrs Johnstone, the mother, as “cruel”. As we continue with the text, we begin to comprehend with the characters more fully. Referring back to the scene where Mrs Johnstone allows the boys to watch” Swedish Au Pairs”. Mrs Lyons would not be as permissive or tolerant, the reason for that is because she is a higher class.
The audience will understand that Mrs Johnstone is more capable and has a better understanding of the fact that young boys are sexually curious, and she does not suppress them. As the play continues, we see Mrs Johnston as a more approachable mother, rather than viewing her cruel mother. We tend to sympathise with the difficulty. We see her handle her house full of children with continuous forbearance and with tolerance.
This quote shows the audience this: we see Mrs Johnstone refuse money from the determined Mrs Lyons, which I think is the climax in the play.
Mrs Lyons: “Thousands… I’m talking about thousands if you want it, and think about what you could do with money like that.”
Mrs Johnstone replies: “I’d spend it; I’d buy more trash that’s all. I don’t want your money. I’ve made a life here. It’s not much of one maybe but I made it”.
As shown in the above, Willy Russell use foreshadowing because Mrs Lyons sees money as a solution for Mrs Johnston’s situation. Mrs Lyons is seen with more authority. We feel that she does seem to lose control ...
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... because she has lied to her husband ,friends and family and even Edward being her own son. Mickey feels guilty about the lack of support for himself and his family (Linda and Sarah) he relays on Mrs Johnstone to support him.
Mostly the beginning of this play is significant; we have knowledge about the tragedy at the end because the separation of Mickey and Edward is going to end in tragedy so we force the separation as a bad idea.
Fate is included but I think superstition is responsible for the tragedy Russell explores the ideas of fate to create dramatic irony for the audience to foreknowledge twin’s grim fate. Mickey and Edward childhood games of gun fights as intense as we already foresee the death-scene. To conclude I have considerably enjoyed studying the passage recommend it to student and teachers it`s wonderful and adventures the book is enthralling.
What the author is doing is letting the reader foreshadow. A technique which creates suspense, a vital element in any action story. The author then explained what was being hinted at;
In this essay we will be comparing two female characters from different texts and different time periods. We will be looking in depth at Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth', and Sheila from J.B. Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls'. We will be looking at their roles in their respective plays, and how their characters develop over time.
Before Mrs. Ames and the mother realize the restrictions of their old lives, their worlds have been full of disillusionment and ignorance. Mrs. Ames, for example, is oppressed by her husband’s silence and the search for love and tenderness from anyone, because she lives each day alone, ignored by her scornful husband. And, as a result of being left companionless, she does not mature, rather she longs for tenderness. In other words, Boyle explains her dysfunctional relationship with her husband, “The mystery and silence of her husband’s mind lay like a chiding finger of her lips. Her eyes were gray for the light had been extinguished in them” (57). That is, Mrs. Ames’ spirit remains oppressed by her husband who treats her as a child, and, in doing so, isolates her from his world.
Within the confines of the movie, before the reading of the novel, this writer found the following several elements of the story confusing: who is Fergus and how does he fit in; Sarah’s standing on the hill looking toward her mother’s house seems unfinished; why does the Reverend Sorleyson treat his wife, Victoria, with such distain; what is the significance of the meal in which Hamilton orders Sarah to cook the fish for the Catholic woman; why does Frank voice no objections at the marriage of Sarah and Hamilton? Read on and ye shall uncover the answers.
To begin with, the author uses foreshadowing in the story to express one’s point of view, proving the hardships this character goes through. For example, Teddy is an ambitious child at the prime of his childhood being overruled by his unimaginative ridiculing aunt
However, the reader must always keep in mind the time at which this piece was written and how these relationships exemplify the realities of personal relationships during this time era. Her relationship with John is dominated by him and is almost like she is the child. Without anyone to speak to about her true feelings and stresses, she writes, another thing she must hide from John and Jennie. The reader feels a sense of fear from the narrator, “there comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman 78). Yet another sign of how he does not want his wife thinking for herself and doing what she pleases. When learning about the author and her background, her feminist side shows in this piece through examples like these. The true dark sides of marriage, the loneliness, and the female role of always being superior are portrayed perfectly in this short
"Some mothers might have encouraged intimacy from motives of interest...and some might have repressed it from motives of prudence...but Mrs. Dashwood was alike uninfluenced by either consideration. It was enough for her that he appeared to be amiable, that he loved her daughter, and that Elinor returned the partiality" (13).
used as this can give a good insight into the author and on this note,
In the 19th Century, women had different roles and treated differently compared to today’s women in American society. In the past, men expected women to carry out the duties of a homemaker, which consisted of cleaning and cooking. In earlier years, men did not allow women to have opinions or carry on a job outside of the household. As today’s societies, women leave the house to carry on jobs that allow them to speak their minds and carry on roles that men carried out in earlier years. In the 19th Century, men stereotyped women to be insignificant, not think with their minds about issues outside of the kitchen or home. In the play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, the writer portrays how women in earlier years have no rights and men treat women like dirt. Trifles is based on real life events of a murder that Susan Glaspell covered during her work as a newspaper reporter in Des Moines and the play is based off of Susan Glaspell’s earlier writing, “A Jury of Her Peers”. The play is about a wife of a farmer that appears to be cold and filled with silence. After many years of the husband treating the wife terrible, the farmer’s wife snaps and murders her husband. In addition, the play portrays how men and women may stick together in same sex roles in certain situations. The men in the play are busy looking for evidence of proof to show Mrs. Wright murdered her husband. As for the women in the play, they stick together by hiding evidence to prove Mrs. Wright murdered her husband. Although men felt they were smarter than women in the earlier days, the play describes how women are expected of too much in their roles, which could cause a woman to emotionally snap, but leads to women banding together to prove that women can be...
One example of foreshadowing is Sydney Carton’s promise to Lucie that he will do anything for Lucy or any dear to Lucie. At the beginning of the novel when Stryver brought up to Carton his love for Lucie, “Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate, drank it by the bumpers, looking at his friend” (129). The fact that Sydney began drinking quickly gave the clue that Carton is developing a love for Lucie. Earlier we know this fits because of Stryver and Carton’s conversation at the Old Bailey. Carton says, “[W]ho made the Old Bailey a judge of beauty? She was a golden haired doll!” (84). These two quotes show that Sydney Carton has feelings for Lucie. When Charles Darnay marries Lucie, Carton’s feelings do not waver. “For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything” Carton says (141). This promise is the key to Carton’s fate, and with this he foreshadows his doom when he follows through with it, costing him his life.
By the end of the play Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters found the dead canary in Mrs. Wright’s sewing kit. The canary had marks around its neck inferring that it had been strangled just like Mr. Wright, but they faced a dilemma on whether or not to turn in the evidence. In the end they decided to withhold the evidence from their husbands. By keeping this evidence from their husbands the two women chose to defend not only Mrs. Wright, but all women during this time period. They felt that the prejudices and discriminatory acts of men during this time period towards women were not acceptable. Men of this time belittled their wives and these women tried to challenge that philosophy. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale help show the audience what women in this time period had to endure in order to get back their freedom.
"Once a car stops and the rich mill owner’s lazy wife leans out of the car and whines: "Giveya twobits cash for that old tree." Ordinarily my friend is afraid of saying no; but on this occasion she shakes her head. "Goodness woman you can get another one." In answer my friend gently reflects: I doubt it. There’s never two of anything."
Mrs. Linde, on the other hand, knows what it is like to not have money to spare. She values money, but for an entire different purpose. The looks at it for what it is worth, and how it can help her survive. Her entire life she has had to work hard for anything that she wanted or needed. “Well, anyway,” she responded to Nora’s remark on having stacks of money, “it would be lovely enough to have enough for necessities” (703). To survive, she “had to scrape up living with a little shop and a little teaching and whatever else [she] could find” (704).
Wilde uses Lady Bracknell to introduce his satire of Victorian attitudes towards marriage in the first act by making Lady Bracknell treat Jack’s proposal to her daughter Gwendolen Fairfax like a well thought out business proposition combining social status, lineage and wealth. Much like in the reality of Victorian society, Wilde portrays marriage as an ordeal that doesn’t involve love, or the bride-to-be’s opinion, in any way but instead is a decision made entirely by the father of bride. However, rather than Gwendolen’s father having the power, Wilde casts Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen’s mother, as the domineering figure to create blithesome humour through incongruity and gender role reversal. After a nearly clinical and cold cross-examination of Jack that removes any empathy the audience felt towards Lady Bracknell and therefore causes us to like the other characters even more, she decides Jack can’t marry Gwendolen until he tries to “acquire some relations as soon as possible” (1.2.215). This shows even Lady Bracknell, a member of the rich upperclass, realises heritage isn’t really important but fashionable and is perhaps only there for show, not that she cares, she simply follows the trend. Here, Wilde undermines the...
...e one support themselves and bears everything without asking anything in return. Racheal goes as far as to tend Stephen’s wife for the only purpose to help the one she loves. Both the care they impart and the way in which they behave both inside and outside the home are remarkable. Sissy goes as far as to confront Mr. Harthouse, who plays the role of the temper and seduction. This action may infer that a proper Victorian woman must be above the earthly temptations of the flesh.