longshoreman." He is an ordinary man and is part of the local Italian community. He is the master of the household and both Beatrice and Catherine are undoubtedly used to him laying down the rules; Eddie sees this as a ‘macho’ thing to do and he expects all men to do the same - which is why he cannot accept Rodolfo’s gentle talents. Furthermore‚ conflict is demonstrated when the cousins of Beatrice‚ Rodolfo and Marco‚ arrive. As narrator‚ Alfieri discloses the eventual tragedy‚ he talks about justice and
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Alfieri’s Opening Speech The play A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller is a short play with nine main characters. One of these nine characters is Alfieri. He is the first character that the audience meets. Alfieri is a lawyer to whom Eddie Carbone goes to for advice in the middle of the play. Alfieri also plays a part role as a narrator. He is the character that starts and ends the play and gives the audience background detail as well as inside hints at what he thinks will happen
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plays when he was in university and continued to write them after he graduated and became a journalist. In the play‚ loyalty dictates the events very strongly as because of Eddies mixed emotions for Catharine he chooses to be more loyal to her than to all of his family. Miller shows the importance of loyalty through Eddie telling Catharine the ‘Vinnie Bolzano’ story. Catharine’s reaction shows the audience that in Italy‚ family loyalty is the most important thing as Catharine is both shocked
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role in the drama‚ the dramatic devices and use of language by Miller as well as the background and social context of the play. Eddie’s role in the play is the most vital one; he is by far the most important character in the play. It is‚ after all‚ his inability to deal with his emotions that triggers most of the story and the tragedy that unfolds. Throughout the play we see many changes in the character of Eddie. At the beginning of the play Eddie is a respected‚ hard-working man who is
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climaxes in the plot but rather includes various tension-building elements that form the path to the eventual pinnacle at the end of the play. A View from the Bridge is a very tense play‚ with numerous layers of conflict consistently going on‚ and almost all of these are with Eddie. The tension aroused in Act 1 is crucial for the rest of the play. Miller during Act 1 creates tensions in a variety of manners. One of the ways Miller creates tension is through the sphere of sex and love. This is a key theme
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Consistency in Dr. Tom Stockmann In Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People‚ Dr. Stockmann is first introduced as an intelligent doctor and scientist who appears to live in constant high spirits. Miller describes him as “the eternal amateur- a lover of things‚ of people‚ of sheer living‚ a man for whom the days are too short‚ and the future fabulous with discoverable joys” (Miller‚ 6). Upon receiving his results from the university regarding the condition of the
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towards him. In Eddie’s eyes‚ Rodolpho does not have the image of what makes a real man. Throughout the play Eddie picks at the fact that Rodolpho cooks‚ sings‚ is weak at fighting‚ and makes dresses. He also makes comments about Rodolpho’s blonde hair. All these traits in Eddie’s eyes are of a typical woman or even homosexual. In the play it says “Eddie pins his arms‚ laughing‚ and suddenly kisses him” this seems to be a test to see is Rodolpho is really attracted to guys. Another incident Eddie tries
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caring too much for her he ended up dying. The other flaws Arthur Miller gave Eddie was that he was too jealous of Rodolpho‚ and he was too proud to forgive Marco when Rodolpho apologized. His jealousy‚ pride and that he cared is what made him die but all of that was foreshadowed by Alfieri our narrator in the play. The effect of Miller’s play would be that as the audience we would be curious of the character of Eddie since we see him at the beginning of the play being a bit
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Writing What You Know: An Exploration of the Autobiographical Nature of Merrily We Roll Along Artists of all kinds — writers‚ painters‚ actors‚ musicians — are encouraged to begin their creative explorations from where they are‚ working with what is familiar to them before discovering what is new. Sondheim‚ though hardly considered an amateur‚ has spent the majority of his career writing intimately about things that he himself admits he is not well-versed in. He was a person who “never even met
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towards these characters‚ such as Rodolfo who does not conform to these qualities‚ and Marco‚ who does demonstrate these characteristics‚ but in a way that makes Eddie feel threatened. Eddie feels that all men should show conventionally masculine characteristics. For example‚ he believes that all men should be the breadwinner for their families. He shows the audience this as no one else in the Carbone family works‚ and when his niece Catherine gets a job offer to earn lots of money‚ Eddie says ’I
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