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A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller

'A View From The Bridge' is a play written and directed by Arthur Miller A writer that got interested in a lower part of Manhattan which is across the Brooklyn Bridge from the richer part of New York City where the play is set. Miller's play concentrates on a particular community full of Sicilian immigrants. This community has responsibilities towards one another, they look out for each other, but soon a character's betrayal casts a shadow on the rest of the community, the same character that is led by fate towards a destiny that cannot be escaped.

In the last part of the play, just before Rodolfo enters, Catherine, Eddie and Beatrice have been …show more content…

This tells us that Eddie wants to face up to Marco, that he's not afraid of him, even though we found out that Marco is stronger than Eddie in the past scenes.

Just before Marco comes in, Beatrice plays an interesting role. Miller uses her character to make the tension, by her trying to get Eddie to calm down and to play the peacemaker, but the main role she plays in this scene is that what she tries to get out of Eddie. She comments on how Eddie wants something. Eddie yells that 'Marco's got my name', but Beatrice realises that Eddie wants something else. The tension breaks out when Beatrice yells to Eddie, 'you can never have her!' This is what Eddie really wanted, Catherine, to be his and not anyone else's, including Rodolfo, even though she id his niece. The way Eddie is 'shocked, horrified' and has his 'fists clenching', shows that he is angry with Beatrice for saying that. At this point, the audience are shocked and worried to how Eddie will react to this.

As Marco enters calling for Eddie, we can feel the tension mount up, because when Marco calls out for Eddie, all characters 'stand transfixed for an instant', as if they don't know how to react to this. But as the characters realise what is going on, Eddie 'emerges from the apartment' to get back his name and show the neighbourhood what a liar Marco is. The audience would start to worry when the two characters (Marco and

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