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    Beatrice: Plot: Act 1 a) Supports Catherine’s request to be allowed to take a job‚ “Listen‚ she’s gotta go to work sometime”‚ and then hints at the perverse nature of their relationship to Eddie‚ “she’s seventeen years old‚ you gonna keep her in the house all her life”. She comments on other similar issues to support her claim‚ “First is was gonna be when she graduated high school‚ so she graduated high school. Then it was gonna be when she learced stenographer‚ so she learned stenographer. So

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    “A View from the Bridge” is a tragic play written by Arthur Miller‚ based on the concept of illegal immigrants being snitched on by their own relatives.  In this play‚ the boxing scene refers to the last part of Act 1 or Episode 5 of the play. So far in the play‚ we learn that Beatrice and Eddie are married‚ and their adopted child is Catherine‚ who is almost a legal adult.  Marco and Rodolfo are illegal immigrants from Sicily‚ who are Beatrice’s cousins.   Catherine and Rodolfo soon start to develop

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    A View From the Bridge Final Coursework Essay By Salman Ramjaun 10GE... How does Arthur Miller present the ideas of Manliness‚ Hostility and Aggression in ‘A View from the Bridge?’ ‘A View from the Bridge’‚ a play written by Arthur Miller was set in Red Hook‚ Brooklyn in the 1950s; this area consisted of many Italian immigrants who came to Brooklyn to work. The tragic hero of the play named‚ Eddie Carbone is a 40 year old man‚ an American of a Sicilian background; He is described as "a husky

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    Trace the development of dramatic tension in this scene from the apparently innocuous conversation around the meal table to the closing tableau of the chair lifting episode which concludes the act This scene is the last in act one and is an important scene for building up drama and tension between the characters. Even the positioning of the scene helps the drama‚ by putting it at the end of act 1‚ where in the theatre there would be an interval‚ it leaves the audience with a cliff

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    Marco and Rodolpho are Beatrice’s two cousins coming to the United States from Italy. They are coming to the United States to make money to live better lives and they stick together through thick and thin. That is where the similarities end with these two brothers. Each one of them is there for completely different reasons. They are viewed differently by those around them and react differently to the situations that are presented to them. Marco came to the United States for one reason only: to

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    police/officers that Eddie was the one with the gun and robbing the innocent people at night. 4. Marcus and Eddie’s reaction to the film The Count of Monte Cristo was that in the film there were scenes of a hero sword fighting and how a friend turned on away from his other friend. That scene relates with Eddie and Marcus and how either Marcus would let Eddie down and criticize/blame him about the robbing or if Eddie will let Marcus down. In the book Marcus had a choice to criticize his Eddie but he didn’t.

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    Essay on The Dramatic Point of View of "Hills Like White Elephants" This story‚ Hills Like White Elephants‚ is taken form the Objective (dramatic) point of view where the author is the narrator. The author doesn’t enter the mind of the characters at any time. He allows us only to see the characters as we would in real life. This is sometimes called the dramatic point of view. The only way we‚ the reader‚ learn anything about them is through what they say about themselves. If the story were

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    self-ruled neighborhood known as a polis. As the play begins‚ Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine‚ although his feelings grow into something more than avuncular as the play develops. His attachment to her is brought into perspective by the arrival from Italy of Beatrice’s two cousins‚ Marco and Rodolpho. They have entered the country illegally‚ hoping to leave behind hunger and unemployment for a better life in America. Whereas Marco is a physically strong man with a starving family back home‚ charming

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    this situation‚ she tells Calonice to: “don’t forget to vote for making peace!” (951). He then says that he will think it over and Myrrhine just vanishes into the Acropolis without having sex with him. Without this scene‚ there would be no tailored view on what effect the self-restraint was having on all those involved. Therefore‚ the plot is well-thought-out‚ centered on the single action of conveying peace to Greece and Sparta‚ and leads to a sustaining and humorous

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    A View from the Bridge Discuss How Arthur Miller uses the different relationships between Eddie and the Italian brothers to explore key themes of the play. When Beatrice’s cousins Marco and Rodolfo come to stay with the family illegally‚ to try and get work and a sufficient amount of money to send back home to Italy‚ tensions rises as Eddie feels threatened as Marco’s alpha male status‚ whereas he is When Marco first arrived‚ he thought that Eddie was a kind‚ friendly man and so he had his trust

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