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Aug 28, 2024 · Mrs Johnstone is introduced as a sympathetic character, cheerful despite her difficult circumstances. She sings a song telling audiences her husband left her for a younger woman when she was 25 (a few months prior) because she looks 42. She explains she has seven children and another on the way.
The main characters in Blood Brothers are Mickey Johnstone and Edward Lyons, and their mothers, Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons. Learn about the complicated and difficult lives they lead. Part of ...
Mickey Johnstone. One of the twin brothers who were separated at birth. Grows up in a poverty-stricken, working-class family. Initially, he is full of life and is carefree but his demeanour changes after being imprisoned. As an adult, he struggles with unemployment and depression. Edward Lyons
Mrs Johnstone is constantly in fear and under pressure from the authorities, whether that be the welfare office or debt collectors. This pressure can lead her to make poor choices, such as giving up her baby to Mrs Lyons in the belief that she was protecting her family from the welfare.
- Mickey (Michael) Johnstone
- Edward (Eddie) Lyons
- Mrs. Johnstone
- Mrs. Lyons
Generous, shy, and upbeat as a child, Mickey is a study in the havoc povertycan wreak on a promising life. One of Mrs. Johnstone’s youngest twin sons,Mickey grows up impoverished with his six older siblings. Yet he is sociableand friendly, enjoying deep friendships with Linda and Edward. However, as hegrows up, he transforms into a cynical, aggress...
Described as “bright and forthcoming,” Edward Lyons is as generous-spiritedas his twin, Mickey Johnstone. However, unlike Mickey, Edward, adopted by thewealthy Lyons family, grows up surrounded by every convenience and opportunity.His wealthy background ensures that Edward does not undergo the same hardeningas Mickey, and he grows up to become a mo...
Mrs. Johnstone is the biological mother of Mickey Johnstone, Edward Lyons,and five other children, including Sammy and Donna Marie Johnstone. She isabandoned by her husband when she is pregnant with her youngest children Mickeyand Edward. Mrs. Johnstone is a resilient, warm, and open-hearted woman. Thoughshe lives a life of great poverty, she manag...
At once compelling and repellent, Mrs. Lyons is a classic example of how the wealthy prey upon the poor. As part of a childless couple—arguably a symbol for the artifice and coldness of the rich—Mrs. Lyons longs to share in the fecundity represented by...
Mrs. Johnstone. The biological mother of Mickey and Edward (as well as a horde of other children, including Sammy and Donna Marie), Mrs. Johnstone is a deeply superstitious woman who is forever scrambling to get by, but has a good heart and a strong sense of right and wrong.
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Johnstone. At the beginning of the play, the Narrator describes Mrs Johnstone as ‘the mother, so cruel’ – but is this what we are led to think of Mrs Johnstone? For instance, how do we react to the scene where Mrs Johnstone allows the boys to go to the cinema to watch the ‘Swedish Au Pairs’ film? We know that Mrs Lyons would
