Examining Alfieri's Role in a View From a Bridge Alfieri was born in Italy. He is in his fifties. He is good humoured and thoughtful. He is a family lawyer sorting out family difficulties. He introduces the play and acts as a character. He is the narrator that is watching the action on stage. Alfieri is probably the most important role after Eddie. One of the most important roles of Alfieri is that he is the narrator of this play. He tells the story. He gives us hints into what is going to happen in the following scenes. He introduces the play and all the new scenes. He also usually ends the scene and he finishes the play. This next quotation is an example of Alfieri introducing Act Two. …show more content…
Alfieri helps us to understand the play, he comments on the action in the previous scene and gives his views and he also gives a hint into what is going to happen in the next scene. When Alfieri speaks at the end of every scene, this help us to understand and break the play down into small chunks so that audience has more time to take in what has just happened. The audience has more time to stop and think and create their own opinions about what has just happened in the previous scene. Alfieri start and finishes the play , he brings the play to a tidy end, making the audience understand it better, because if the play had just ended when Eddie was killed then the audience would have thought that an unsatisfactory ending and that may have caused confusion with some members of the audience. Alfieri explains the actions of the characters. For example when Eddie comes to see Alfieri, he explains why Eddie comes to talk to him. "I had represented his father in an accident case some years before, and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way."
The play is episodic. Tension builds throughout each scene so that the audience can see the deeper mystery and bigger
He, obviously, is the narrator, and the person whom we see the story through. He gives us his opinions on the matters at hand, and we see the book through his viewpoint. The traits described above allow him to be such a great narrator, for he can get people to confide in him, and relay this information to the reader.
Friendship can be shown through the words of anyone in any form, whether it is short or long, in a simple poem to a complicated novel, even in a simple common book such as, Bridge to Terabithia. The author, Paterson, uses many of reasonable literary elements in her book, such elements encompass: character, plot, setting, theme, style, point of view, and tone. These seven elements show us that friendship between the main characters, Jesse and Leslie, in Bridge to Terabithia, although interrupted by many everyday occurrences, can develop quickly, without one's realization. And that friendship, that was suddenly started, can be suddenly gone with the least suspected. In this instance, friendship is suddenly ended, there would be the
A short play is usually filled with a theatrical energy of diverse anthologies. The time allotted may be only ten or fifteen minutes, so it must be able to capture and engage the audience with some dramatic tension, exciting action, or witty humor. Just as in a short story, a great deal of the explanation and background is left for the reader or viewer to discover on their own. Because all the details are not explicitly stated, each viewer interprets the action in their own way and each experience is unique from someone else viewing the same play. Conflict is the main aspect that drives any work of literature, and plays usually consist of some form of conflict. In “Playwriting 101:
By having Everyman interact with these conceptualized characters, the author externalizes his inner conflict. Perhaps this technique seems too obvious or almost condescending to our more literate age, but whatever the case, it effectively conveys the central message of the play.
knows it as one of the characters is soon to depart out of the play,
The play makes you think, whether for a split moment or a long time, about the idea of being aware while going about even the most menial of tasks.
The overall dramatic meaning of this play has been successfully shown by the elements of drama. The
as a narrator so he himself can enter the story and tell it out of his own
portrayed him in this way. It is vital the believability and credit to the play
To begin with, in this play the author unfolds family conflicts that involve its characters into a series of events that affected their lives and pushed them to unexpected ways.
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he plays a major part in the play, and appears in most of the major