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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CHAPTER 30 The War to End War‚ 1917-1918 IV. SINGLE-ANSWER MULTIPLE CHOICE. Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 1. President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when a. the Zimmermann note was intercepted and made public. b. Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic. c. news was received that a revolutionary movement had overthrown the czarist regime in Russia. d. Germany rejected Wilson’s
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Summary When Eddie saw his sister‚ Delia‚ beating his dog with a stick‚ he felt hate heave like a caged‚ angry beast in his chest. Out in the sun‚ the hair of his sister glinted like metal and‚ in her brown dress‚ she looked like a sheathed dagger. Biryuk hugged the earth and screamed but he could not bound forward nor cry out to his sister. She had a weak heart and she must not be surprised. So he held himself‚ his throat swelled‚ and he felt hate rear and plunge in its cage of ribs. Eddie was thirteen
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new beginning. The novel “The five people you meet in heaven” by Mitch Albom proves that. Eddie lived a peaceful life after the war. But Eddie still felt his life had no purpose after marguerite passed away. Eddie was also the second generation of family to work at the pier. When Eddie passed away‚ saving a little girl‚ on his eighty-third birthday‚ he discovers a second life. On his way through heaven Eddie will learn three of the most valuable lessons in life. “Lost love is still love”‚ “no sacrifice
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what is going to happen to him? (pg. 1) about eddie nd when he dies Describe Ruby Pier. (pg. 1) --provide a minimum of 5 details last place before he died‚ he met his wife‚ taffy stand‚ big ferris wheel. Briefly describe Eddie (pg. 2) – five items minimum old‚ likes kids‚ quiet‚ hes loving‚ bad knee If Eddie could “hear” trouble in the rides‚ what does this suggest about him? (pg. 2) he knows every thing about the ridesChapter Why does Eddie like kids better than teenagers? (pg. 3) teenagers
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A view from the bridge- The final scene of act one is important because Eddie loses his power to Marco who is an immigrant. In this scene it is the highest point of tension. It is the climax. This play is a tragedy and a traditional tragedy always has climax in the middle which this play has‚ because it has its turning point in the middle‚ it fits into the structure of ‘tragedy.’ The audience may feel tension and start questioning about Eddie’s further steps. Arthur Miller uses dramatic irony
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and Eddie powerful and disturbing in many ways‚ mainly with the many climaxes when we feel Eddie is going to explode with anger and frustration but Alfieri calms him down with his appeasing words. This extract is a very gripping part of the play because it helps us understand both characters in different lights. The quotation‚ ‘Eddie‚ I want you to listen to me‚’ said by Alfieri shows that he is a very strong character and is not afraid to speak his mind. The fact that he says this to Eddie‚ who
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too; the beginning of Eddie’s "life" in Heaven. When Eddie gets to Heaven‚ he meets 5 people‚ who all teach him a lesson. Those five people were: The Blue Man‚ his old captain from war‚ Ruby‚ Marguerite‚ and then Tala. The Blue Man is the first person that Eddie met in heaven. He recognized the Blue man from the pier. He was an attraction at the pier because his skin was a shade of blue. The blue man died because he was trying not to run Eddie over in his car. The car was wrecked and the Blue Man
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The Captain stated "Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious‚ you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else" (Albom‚ 2003‚ p. 94). The Captain teaches Eddie that sacrifice comes in all sizes‚ good and bad. Eddie learns it is not something to regret. Eddie realized that the sacrifice of being shot in the leg by his captain‚ initially saved his life. Had The Captain not shot him‚ he likely would have dead in the building fire. The Captain’s life was sacrificed for his
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Social responsibility is the idea that the individual must look after others for the betterment of society. The protagonist in the novel‚ an elderly maintenance worker at an amusement park‚ begins his journey of self discovery with his own death. When Eddie dies in an attempt to save the life of a young girl at the park‚ known as Ruby Pier‚ he is brought up to heaven to meet
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