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A View From the BridgeOne of the ways in which Miller creates tragedy in this play is through the conflict between the self and the community. Throughout the play, Miller makes it clear that there is a difference of...
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A View From the BridgeEddie, Marco and Rodolpho each exhibit distinctly different types of masculinity in this play. Eddie is presented as an emotional (over-emotional perhaps) patriarch. He makes commands in his...
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A View From the BridgeThere are many elements of this play unrelated to immigration. In fact, the central drama is not directly related to the circumstances of Marco and Rodolpho as illegal immigrants. Rather, the...
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A View From the BridgeEddie Carbone's complexity grows out of his lack of ability to see himself clearly. Eddie has developed a romantic love for his niece. Eddie has unarticulated and perhaps unconscious desires to...
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A View From the BridgeEddie Carbone is deeply conflicted and confused. He is unable to be honest about his feelings for his niece, though others can see clearly that Eddie's fatherly affections for Catherine have at...
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A View From the BridgeA number of literary devices are employed by Miller in this play. The first and most obvious literary device of the play is the use of a frame story. The lawyer, Alfieri, opens the story with a...
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A View From the Bridgemarco breaks alfieri promises - as he believes Eddie should be punished the area live in (red hook) - as a code of honour which is not to snitch on friends and family and to stay loyal to your...
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A View From the BridgeBoth plays take place in an immigrant and working class enclaves in American cities, thus contrasting the old-world values of the immigrants and the American aspirations of social mobility. A View...
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A View From the BridgeInterestingly, this play had at its basis the germ of a real story very similar to the plot of the play. In 1947, Miller was researching a story about a Longshoreman who had been executed by the...
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A View From the BridgeIn these three men, Eddie, Rodolpho and Marco, we are presented with three distinctly different modes of masculinity. Eddie is a man out of touch with his emotions who is, therefore, dominated by...
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A View From the BridgeAs the play opens, Eddie is a sympathetic character. Though he remains somewhat sympathetic to the very end, his behavior, his moral standing, and his persona all suffer a fall. Eddie becomes more...
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A View From the BridgeAlfieri functions as the chorus of the play, commenting on the action and the characters carrying out the action, but ultimately set apart and serving as a medium between the audience and the...