He has a lovely young niece‚ Catherine‚ and a wife Beatrice‚ a splendid housewife with a heart of gold. Catherine has just been offered a job as a stenographer at a plumbing company. Eddie‚ overprotective father figures‚ is hesitant to let her take it‚ even though it won’t interfere with her school. Eventually he agrees and gives the OK. We also learn that Beatrice has a couple of cousins who will soon arrive from Sicily‚ Italy. They’re being getting into
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holy” “something perversely pure calls to me from his memory…and so I mourn him - I admit - with a certain…alarm.” Eddie: “pleased and therefore shy about it” “you’re walkin’ wavy” “the heads are turnin’ like windmills” “I’m responsible for you. You’re a baby‚ you don’t understand these things.” “You’re getting’ to be a big girl now‚ you gotta keep yourself more” “Beatrice‚ all I’m worried about is you got such a big heart” “I just don’t want you bein’ pushed around‚ that’s all. You got
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upon longshoreman Eddie Carbone’s unhealthy obsession with his seventeen year old niece Catherine. A modern version of a Greek tragedy‚ the play charts Eddie’s downfall‚ ending with his tragic demise. Throughout the play‚ Miller makes effective use of characterisation and key scene to encourage the audience to reflect upon the dangerous‚ destructive nature of obsession. Eddie’s obsession with Catherine manifests itself‚ at the beginning of the play‚ as mere over-protectiveness. Eddie appears disheartened
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character of the play is Eddie Carbone‚ an Italian American longshoreman‚ who lives with his wife‚ Beatrice and an orphaned niece named Catherine. Eddie is Catherine’s uncle‚ but they are not blood-related. Eddie is very over-protective of Catherine and that he is almost possessive of her. He gets jealous very easily when other men look at Catherine. Eddie’s feelings for Catherine are very strong and he may also have sexual feelings for her. At the beginning of the play‚ Eddie and Catherine have a
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The story centers around the house of Eddie‚ a working man‚ husband to Beatrice and guardian of orphaned niece Catherine. Eddie is a man who prides himself on his name‚ and the respect he receives from all those around him. However‚ following Catherine’s offer of employment‚ and the arrival of two of Beatrice’s cousins from Italy the illegal immigrants Marco and Rodolpho)‚ Eddie’s role as master of his house is continually questioned. Soon‚ Eddie’s leading status‚ both inside and outside the family
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inhibited mainly by Italian immigrants. The play revolves around the Carbone family who are also Italian Immigrants called Eddie and Beatrice; a married couple with their niece Catherine. The family smuggle in two relatives into their home by the names of Marco and Rodolfo; during the play Rodolfo becomes friendly with Catherine. The idea of Rodolfo and Catherine as a couple torments Eddie‚ Eddie’s torment is made clear to us through Alfieri. Alfieri is considered as the mouth of the play as he opens and
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Julia Daniel UCLR 100-01E 13 February 2013 Lumet’s Reinterpretation of Rodolpho This paper analyzes how Sidney Lumet reinterprets the character of Rodolpho in the film adaptation of A View from the Bridge. She focuses on the boxing scene between Eddie and Rodolpho and the scene where Catherine confronts Rodolpho about the possibility of living in Italy. In the film adaptation‚ Lumet reinterprets Rodolpho as a more mature‚ experienced‚ and powerful character than Rodolpho as portrayed by Miller in
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Arthur Miller first heard the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman that would become the basis for his play‚ A View from the Bridge in 1947. He would not write it until 1955‚ when it was produced on Broadway as a simple‚ unadorned one-act. Miller would then develop and expand it into a full-length production with director Peter Brook in London in 1956. The incubation period of A View from the Bridge‚ spanning from 1947 to 1956‚ straddles and absorbs a host of major events both on the national landscape
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The full influence of Greek tragedy upon our modern theatre is incomprehensible‚ with the mainstays of theatrical convention largely demonstrating roots within Greek tragedy. The choric function is just one of these conventions. This essay hopes to explore various uses of the Chorus within Greek tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles‚ and then to analyse how traits of a Greek Chorus‚ and the choric function can be found within 20th Century Theatre. The Chorus in Greek tragedy was a large group (it
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Twyla Tharp is an American dancer‚ choreographer‚ and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1966‚ she formed her own company Twyla Tharp Dance. Her work often uses classical music‚ jazz‚ and contemporary pop music‚ and she is easily one of the most influential dancers/ choreographers in the last century. Tharp was born on a farm in Portland‚ Indiana on July 1st‚ 1941 to mother‚ Lucille‚ and father‚ William‚ and was named after the “Pig Princess” of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana
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