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A symbol is an object that represents an idea, concept or emotion. They are often repeated throughout a literary text to teach the audience something and to help them draw links throughout the text.
Marilyn Monroe represents different ideas throughout the musical, including:
Guns represent the culture of the time as they represent the cowboy and indian films and gangster movies that were popular at the time.
Sammy's development as a character is reflected in the guns that he owns.
In "Blood Brothers", guns serve to represent not only represent the culture of the time, but the violence and danger of the characters, particularly Sammy.
At the start of the play, Sammy steals Mickey's toy gun, representing his interesting in violence from the onset of the musical.
Throughout the play, this progresses onto an air pistol to a real gun, demonstrating his increasing obsession with crime and violence.
To Mrs Lyons, children represent her success as a woman and a mother, which explains why she is so desperate to have children throughout the musical as she sees herself as a failed woman for being unable to produce children.
Guns also represent the change in characters. In Act One, Linda is capable of firing a gun when she is slightly more masculine as a character.
However, when she develops into a young woman, her skill diminishes.
To the children, other children represent the hope that was felt for the future. The changes in the times that the play was written meant that children experienced a lot more freedom and excitement than their parents.
At the start of the play, Marilyn Monroe is seen to be the epitome of glamour, attractiveness and sexuality.
Mrs Johnstone is incredibly flattered to be told that she is like Marilyn Monroe by both her husband and the judge, demonstrating just how highly Monroe was admired in society.
The children can be seen to be hoping that this will be reflected when they reach maturity and that they will be able to overcome social class boundaries.
Despite her successful career and her image in the media, Marilyn Monroe was incredibly depressed and addicted to medication. It was eventually these drugs that leads to Monroe's death.
In "Blood Brothers", Mickey is seen as being like Marilyn Monroe when he becomes addicted to anti-depressants. This makes the audience think that he may also end up the same way. However, his death is more of an emotional and mental death than an actual one.
Dancing is explored and referenced by:
Dancing is seen both as an expression of happiness, but also a sign of affection as Mrs Johnstone references to it whenever she is
happy and both Mrs Johnstone and the twins
want to dance with the people they love.
Although Mrs Johnstone has an uncontrollable amount of children, she still loves them an excessive amount.
For Mrs Johnstone, her children represent all of the maternal love that she has inside her. Her love goes so far that it prevents her from seeing the wrong that they do.
When Mickey loses his job, he begins to see children as naive and becomes angry with anything that remind him of his childhood.
As a result of this, Mickey becomes angry at Edward for still believing in childish things as he has lost his childhood due to the experiences he has been through, but Edward is still able to maintain the naivety he had as a child.
Children represent different things in the musical to different characters.