Blood brothers is a musical play that was written by the playwright Willy Russell. The play is based on the inequality between social classes in Liverpool during the 1950s to 1980s. The play begins with the character Mrs. Johnstone; she is from the lower class. Mrs. Johnstone was suffering from her failure marriage, and that she has seven children with two others coming on the way. The difference between social classes is shown between Mrs. Johnston and the house that she works as a cleaner in, which is Mrs. Lyons’ house. Mrs. Johnstone has a small messy house full of children with lots of noises, games and fights. While Mrs. Lyons has a big empty house without any noises, because she has a problem that is she can’t get babies, but in the same time she is so desperate for having one. Mrs. Lyons always pressures and tries to convince Mrs. Johnstone to giver one of her babies that are coming soon, but Mrs. Johnstone is hesitant and tentative about it. However when she thinks about how her child’s life would be like; living in a rich house with …show more content…
At that time there was a lot of problems in the city such as firing and terminations. People in Liverpool wanted to move out of the city, because they were looking forward for a better life. They were a social inequality between the working class and the middle class. Which is represented in the play as Mrs. Johnstone and Mrs. Lyons. “Next week I’ll be earning, we’ll have loads of things to eat” said Mrs. Johnstone. This shows how Mrs. Johnstone was from the working class, and at that time she had no food at home. The writer Willy Russell tried to emulate what happened during his childhood in this situation. As his family moved to a lot of industrial areas around Liverpool, and after moving into that country he says, “compared to huyton it was paradise”. This shows that Russell didn’t like these industrial