A View From The Bridge Essay

Arthur Miller was an American playwright who produced the play "A View from the Bridge", first staged on September 29, 1955. It was made into two acts after being unsuccessful as a one Act verse drama. The play is set in the 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighbourhood called Red Hook, a slum area, in New York at the Brooklyn Bridge . Miller heard the story from a lawyer who worked with longshoremen and soon he developed it into a drama first staged on September 29, 1955. It was related to him as a true story. The play is a tragedy. The Greek tragedy playwritting style strongly influenced Miller making his plays reflect important political and social comments in communism. The play has many themes including the theme of illegal immigration,…

Sweet “You’re not pathetic. Who cares! So what if you suck at driving?! So what if you knocked over a couple cones?! It doesn’t matter because the things you don’t suck at trump everything else.” p. 23 Commentary Context Wendy’s failing on her test makes Eddie act as the big guy, helping her gain confidence. Eddie cheers her up by being sweet, comforting and encouraging. Eddie looks at Wendy as a non- patheic achiever who’s able to do anything. This shows that Eddie is a gentlemen who’s able…

felt free, and for that reason, he loved it. "Quotation: "That's the way Heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays"(92). Context: The Captain is saying that Heaven (for him) is making sense of what happened in his life." The Captain was killed when he stepped on a land mine in the Philippines. He explains to Eddies that for him, Heaven is "making sense of [his] life"(92). This keeps with the theme of Love because since Heaven is a place gat you love, for the Captain, he loved the…

1) The ambiguous title aids the reader in thematically analyzing A View from the Bridge. On a bridge, one has a wide, particular view without identifying any details. Similarly, Eddie is very stubborn and lives seeing the entirety of only his viewpoint without considering the advice from Bea or the wise Alfieri. Also, when Eddie decides to “drop a dime,” he seeks a solution to his short-term problem while choosing to disregard the long-term effects of the entire situation. Neglecting the…

Another intense emotion is the opposite of love, hate. In the play “A View from the Bridge” Arthur Miller is able to present that the world he created is about love and hate because of Eddie’s romantic love towards Catherine, Rodolpho and Catherine’s’ love for each other, Marco and Rodolpho brotherly love for each other, and the overall family love that many of the characters, in this play, show each other. Some relationships are so strong they don’t need to be related by blood to be…

In the play, “A View From The Bridge” by Arthur Miller has many themes incorporated into the story. However, the one theme that fits into the story the most is love and hate. In the play, Eddie and his niece Catherine have a relationship that begins with them caring for one another that is similar to a father-daughter relationships, however due to certain actions taken by Eddie, their relationship starts to change. Depending on how people act, love can evolve into hatred. Such was the case in…

In Eddie's world, he imagines protecting Catherine from marriage or any male relationship and wants her for himself. While Eddie wavers and switches between communal and state laws and cultures to discriminate against Rodolpho, his motivations do not change, regardless of the fact it is often at the expense of others. Throughout the play, Miller creates uncomfortable situations for the reader/viewer, caused by the emergence of Eddie’s unusual ‘love’ for Catherine. This is shown in particular in…

At the age of 6 I can remember very vividly, my first fight. My oldest and favorite foster brother whose name was Eddie, took me and Lajon, my foster brother, downstairs to the basement of our house for a very important “life lesson”. The teaching on that day was, “How to defend yourself”. I don’t remember any physical altercations before this day. I also will never forget this day. Lajon and I were the closest in age. He was seven and I was six. We were also close in size in a house of ten…

What is the meaning of the last line of the story? The story went through all of Eddie’s birthdays. The Mitch Albom went through all of Eddie's birthdays was because he died on his birthday. So he could save that little girl. From the falling cart from a ride named Freddie's Free Fall. That was the sad part of the book. That Eddie risked his life for that little girl, at Ruby Pier. After that sad part of the book Eddie goes up to heaven. And meets this little girl that he had killed in the war…

The modern drama, A View from the Bridge, written by Arthur Miller, is told from Alfieri’s perspective. Since the beginning of the first scene, he is established as the narrator for the story. In this essay, I will be analyzing the role of Alfieri in the play through a careful analysis of Miller’s stage directions for Alfieri’s character and his cryptic speeches in between the scenes. Fate and/or predestination is a predominant theme in A View from the Bridge, and Miller uses Alfieri’s…