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    In the play‚ Marco is very important. After all‚ he was the one person who killed Eddie Carbone which is the main event in the play. When Marco comes into the play for the first time‚ he is proven to be the most mature brother who has a quality life worth living. "What can I do? The older one is sick in chest. My wife - she feeds them from her own mouth. I tell you the truth; if I stay there they will never grow up. They eat the sunshine." Having children‚ Marco might feel they are a motivation

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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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    John Grisham’s novel Bleachers‚ Coach Eddie Rake exemplifies the qualities of a good man by helping the community‚ school‚ and his players. Rake supports his players by sharing his life lessons and pushing them to limits they did not believe they would ever see. He contributes his time and talents for many years at Messina High making it the school it has grown to be today. The Messina community manages to come closer than ever before thanks to Eddie Rake. Eddie Rake connects well with everyone in

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    of Sicilian dramas’. This eventually led him to write the play ‘A View from the Bridge’. This play is a modern tragedy as it is about Eddie Carbone meeting his end due to his flaws. Alfieri begins as a narrator (like the Greek chorus)‚ but also becomes a character as the play progresses. This enables Alfieri to elaborate the play and helps the audience to view Eddie as a tragic hero. Without Alfieri‚ ‘A View from the Bridge’ would be incomplete. Alfieri position also links back to the title of the

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    tragic flaw – Eddie‚ in play we are studying is “obsessive need to control Catherine (niece) 2. In “a view from the bridge” – main character – Eddie – is tragic hero 3. A tragic hero – character in work of fiction – who commits action or mistake – leads to downfall/defeat 4. Eddie – character we study‚ tragic hero because – inability to let go of Catherine – leads to betraying his family - tragic error of judgement 5. Leads to downfall/ defeat 6. In essay – analysing how Eddie presented

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    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 and horrified that Vinnie snitched on his own Uncle this is why she shockingly

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    States Marines for many years. I’ve heard of tragic stories and seen gruesome pictures of some of the horrible mishaps that happen while over-seas‚ so I was not actually caught off guard while reading about Eddie. However I did learn a few things while reading this novel‚ such as some of the skills Eddie acquired while at war. For instance‚ “He learned a few words in a foreign languages. He learned to spit a great distance.” (Albom 62-63‚ 4. 1)‚ “He learned that scabies are itchy little mites that burrow

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    is a pay which presents Eddie Carbone as a tragic hero. Eddie’s tragic flaw is either denial or‚ to begin with‚ the feelings he had towards Catherine. The damage caused by a tragic hero’s downfall usually hurts more than just him; his community and family often suffer‚ too. Once again Eddie’s betrayal does both of these things. Another important aspect of a tragic hero is that his own actions are the cause of his demise. In the opening scene of the play‚ it shows Eddie with Beatrice and Catherine

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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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    novel begins at the end‚ right before Eddie dies in the accident. It is here the reader gets the first view of Eddie as an old man‚ weary of the world: “His plans never worked out. In time‚ he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance‚ that this was who he was and who he always would be‚ a man with sand in his shoes in a world of mechanical laughter and grilled frankfurters” (Albom 5). This initial introduction to Eddie delivers the reader with a vivid description

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