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Form and Structure GapFill
You must fill all the gaps before clicking ‘Check Answers!’ This quiz focuses on AO1 (Read, understand and respond to texts) and AO2 (Analyse the language, form and structure).
There are acts in Blood Brothers. Act 1 covers years, then there is a time shift of years before the beginning of Act 2. Willy Russell uses to bridge the gaps in time and give us information about things that happened before the play begins; for example, Mrs Johnstone's husband walking out. Russell has included such significant time shifts so that he can focus on the most episodes in Mickey and Edward's lives.
At the beginning of the play, Willy Russell has used a to create dramatic irony: 'An' did y' never hear how the Johnstones died'. He invites the audience to Mrs Johnstone from the start: 'come judge for yourselves'. He does this to make us question who is to blame for what happens, with the intention that we will realise that the main culprit is the injustice of .
The play ends with the same as at the beginning: 'Tell me it's not true'. This gives us a sense that there could only ever have been one outcome and that it was decided by fate when the twins were separated. The circular structure could also symbolise the vicious cycle that traps people of Mrs Johnstone and Mickey's .