‘A View from the Bridge’‚ by Arthur Miller‚ is a play which explores the theme of obsession. Set in 1940s Brooklyn‚ the play is based upon the lives of the Carbone family and‚ in particular‚ focuses 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
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In what ways does Miller make this scene especially dramatic? 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
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CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY. WHICH CHARACTERS IN PARTICULAR BELIEVE THAT HONOUR IS AN IMPORTANT THEME IN THE PLAY? Honour is a very important in this play‚ specially for Eddie and Marco‚ who are the “alpha males” of the house more or less‚ because Eddie is from the beginning the boss at his house‚ but when he threatens Rodolpho‚ Marco tries to show Eddie that he is also a strong man and that he cannot do that to HIS brother. It means far more to them than the law. To be honorauble is to be respected‚ and
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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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SAC 3: ‘A View from the Bridge’ – Analytical Essay In ‘A View from the Bridge’ by Arthur Miller‚ an average man named Eddie is portrayed as a tragic hero who is driven by a selfish and inappropriate obsession with his own niece Catherine‚ and is ultimately punished by the righteous hands of justice. The two-act play visually demonstrates that while justice is critical‚ it functions differently within the community to the law‚ as justice is concerned with what is fair‚ whereas “the law is only
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judgment or has a fatal flaw that‚ combined with fate and external forces‚ brings on a tragedy.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tragic+hero) The play‚ A View from the Bridge written by Arthur Miller defines the character Eddie‚ the protagonist‚ as occupying most of the qualities for a tragic hero. Eddie in A View from the Bridge came from a noble family background and had failed to realize his weakness that he had love for his niece. In this case‚ this love is not an adopted daughter and a father
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE – Tension Essay MEG DUNCAN Arthur Miller’s play ‘A View from the Bridge’ is an edgy‚ modern adaptation of ancient Greek Theatre‚ in which drama and tragedy are release though the build and release of tension. Told through the eyes of Alfieri‚ we follow the demise of our protagonist‚ Eddie‚ whose love for his niece results in conflict and eventually his death. Tension is present throughout the entirety of the play‚ as it is critical to the play’s success that the audience
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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 and in
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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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View from the Bridge Topic: Discuss the theme of betrayal in “A View from the Bridge” The book‚ “A View from the Bridge”‚ by Arthur Miller has a lot of betrayal in it and this is what I will be discussing in this paper. In this story‚ Rodolfo wants to marry Catherine but the only man that stands in his way is Marco. Marco this Radolfo is gay because he can bake and do stuff a woman does.Also to talk about the way Edie betrays his wife‚ Beatrice and this was because of Catherine too. At
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