Response This play is an observation of modern day living and also of the evils of the class system. The main three characters in the play are Eddie, Mickey and Mrs Johnstone. Eddie and Mickey are twins, and Mrs Johnstone is their mother. They are separated at birth and grow up unaware of this. The play is told in a form so that the only person that changes his or her role is the narrator, …
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…play, however, is class. It is mentioned in the last speech of the play as the cause of the deaths. Class divided the twins and split blood and family to achieve the goal of self-improvement. Blood brothers is one of the most important statements about the English class system in the last century, and it is this dramatic representation of the times that is the end of Mickey and Eddie, two twins born to die.