A tragic Figure of a View from the Bridge In his play A View from the Bridge‚ Arthur Miller tells the story of Eddie Carbone‚ an illiterate longshoreman‚ who has an incestuous love for his niece‚ which drives him to his own tragedy. The story is set in 1950s America‚ in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The play has the ingredients of a traditional Greek tragedy‚ complete with Alfieri‚ a narrator that fulfills the same purpose as Sophocles’s chorus from his plays
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Alfieri says after Eddie comes to see him. He is the narrator and is quite similar to the chorus in a Greek Tragedy. Characters also make ’bridges’ or connections between other characters. For example‚ throughout the first act we see that Beatrice is the bridge between Catherine and Eddie and she still is on page 80 when she insists that Eddie attend the wedding when Catherine does not care. Also‚ Eddie dislikes Rodolpho and Catherine bridges that gap and tries to persuade Eddie to her point of view
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cousins Marco and Rodolpho “illegal immigrants” from Italy. Ultimately it is Eddie Carbone’s opinions of how Rodolpho‚ Catherine‚ Beatrice and Marco should act and his ideals of “respect” and the importance of a “name” that lead to his demise. Eddie Carbone has very strong views on the characteristics men should have. He believes that men should be strong‚ the person who provides for the family and cares for them. Eddie also feels that men should protect their family and tell them when they are
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Italian-American immigrant community are firmly defined. Yet the community is still poised delicately between the "civilized" American society it hopes to assimilate into and the more fundamental Sicilian culture that it has recently left. The hero Eddie faces a moral dilemma as his personal desire comes into conflict with the accepted social customs of his group. As this is a wide-ranging topic‚ I wish to confine my discussion of the subject of cultural context to two main areas that interested me
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dishonourable‚ you lose respect. That is why Marco and Eddie are so keen to protect their names and reach a ’just ’ conclusion. Codes of honour bind families and the whole neighbourhood with a sense of community. Everyone should look out for one another‚ to betray someone is the most dishonourable action imaginable. The next part where we see clear evidence of the importance of honour in the Red Hook community is when Eddie tells Beatrice‚ "It ’s an honour‚ B. I mean it."(p..) when discussing the
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restricting and dominant patriarchal figure‚ which is a culturally defined character. The ideas of honour portrayed in the play are varied according to the background culture of the characters. Eddie believes in getting ‘his name’ back‚ after Marco accuses him of betrayal. This portrays the social pressure upon Eddie‚ for he is mortified that the neighbourhood thinks him a traitor. Marco himself is offended by Eddie’s decision to deceive the brothers‚ and so humiliates him. There are certain clashes between
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as we are illegally boarding we need to be hidden down‚ once or twice someone brought us food...as long as I arrive in America I will be happy‚ I thank Beatrice so much for doing this. How I wish to be there with you but what I am doing is for our good‚ sadly I have to stay here for several years so we can have a
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The first ending chosen by Arthur Miller was actually quite similar to the published one. Eddie assumes his love for Catherine and decides to kiss her once again to make her choose between him and Rodolfo‚ and stop her from marrying him. He even begs for her to stay and love him. After failing‚ his next attempt was to go after Marco to get back his name. They both engage in a deadly fight. Eddie died killed by his own knife. His last words were: “Catherine-why?”. This quotation is very suitable
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Explore what it reveals about Eddie. Page 35-42 Miller uses a variety of ways to make this scene dramatic such as the use of stage directions and how they create a lot of tension between the characters. Miller also uses a lot of entrances and exiting between the characters allowing a dialogue to form‚ permitting an intense emotional confrontation between the characters. For example in the earlier scene‚ Eddie is talking to Alfieri in his office‚ Alfieri advises Eddie to let Catherine marry Rodolfo
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character Eddie Carbone . The writer starts to foreshadow before the characters are presented to initiate the readers to the idea that the play will contain hardships and problems between them. “Bloody course” This suggest that the community in the play is bound to contain an act of violence that is suggested by Alfieri by using the word “bloody”. The word “bloody” may also imply the fact that someone will die a tragic death either by accident or on purpose. We
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