When Marco First Appears, Miller Describes Him as a Square-built

The story, A View from the Bridge is set in America and it talks about a longshoreman, Eddie. He has kindly let two of his relatives who are illegal immigrants from Italy stay in his house. The boxing scene in Act 1, episode 5 of the play is of dramatic importance as it reveals the tension between Eddie and Rodolpho, one of the illegal immigrants. The scene highlights the different views and relationship of the two women towards Eddie as he is starting to resemble a tragic hero and is on his path of self-destruction and downfall. It also emphasizes the growing importance of Marco’s role which eventually leads to the climax at the beginning of Act 1.

The merchant of Venice is a drama and romantic play, by William Shakespeare. Regarding the test for the suitors and the final part of the book, the author is inspired by a fourteenth-century Italian novel of Giovanni Fiorentino, called “Il Giannetto”, (Bullough, 1957). The merchant of Venice is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. It is contained on the First Folio, in the contents of Comedies, sharing certain aspects with others plays. That one traditionally ends with the positive return to order expected from the genre, it also has some characteristics of a tragedy, in particular with regard to the punishment and the oppression that are suffered to Shylock Jew. The peculiarity is the title of this book, “The Merchant of Venice”, in fact, it refers to the character Antonio, and not Shylock, a moneylender, which has a pivotal role in this play. One possible reason is that by calling “The Merchant of Venice”, Shakespeare wanted to focus the attention of the readers, on the

The structure of A View From the Bridge is linear in showing a progression of time. The exposition introduces the still-relevant topics of cross cultural conflicts, justice and the law as well as class through the construction of setting through staging, dialogue and characterisation. Class is introduced through the setting, the Italian-American neighbourhood of Red Hook, in “a worker’s flat, clean, sparse and homely” which conveys a working class household. It is also communicated through the characterisation of Eddie achieved through dialogue and costume. His dialogue is quite rough and casual, perhaps signifying lower levels of education, for example “Where you goin’?” and “Ain’t”. Eddie is then juxtaposed with the character of

In the end of Act 1 in a view from the bridge, miller uses a mixture emotions; such as fear, anxiety, doubt, shock and amusement to present dramatic effectiveness as well as the progress of the characters’ relations and personalities by the end of the act to arise these emotions in the audience, in addition to this Miller uses the end of act 1 to set the theme of human nature and consequences.

We can use this to attach Prospero’s character to Shakespeare, like he were using this character as a focal point for his own messages to the audience. The play was on its own being used as a message to those who knew Shakespeare that his final work had come at last.

Being a drama, the timing, tone, stage directions and contrasting conflicts all help to build tension and allow it to stay constant throughout the play. The timing and the intense tone used help to create links between different parts of the play, whether it is considering a link being formed between Rodolpho’s greed of citizenship and his marriage with Catherine, or Eddie’s Code of Honor being broken and arising towards the American law, when he informs about Beatrice’s illegal cousins. Therefore the ‘Bridge’ in A View From The Bridge is not only a wider perspective of the two contradicting communities but also the small links between each of the characters and acts taking place emerging into bigger clashes and problems and concluding into a heroic tragedy.

“A View from the Bridge” is a tragic play written by Arthur Miller, based on the concept of illegal immigrants being snitched on by their own relatives.  In this play, the boxing scene refers to the last part of Act 1 or Episode 5 of the play. So far in the play, we learn that Beatrice and Eddie are married, and their adopted child is Catherine, who is almost a legal adult.  Marco and Rodolfo are illegal immigrants from Sicily, who are Beatrice’s cousins.   Catherine and Rodolfo soon start to develop feelings for each other, and Eddie is trying to prevent this, as he has an unnatural attraction for Catherine.  In the boxing scene, Eddie insults Rodolfo many times, and tries to humiliate him through boxing with him. Marco gets angry

'A view from the bridge' by Arthur Miller is a tragic intense play about family struggle, lust, passion and deceit. My aim is too look at the relationship of Catherine and Eddie. To understand the relationship, we must understand the atmosphere and culture. To do this we need to know why Miller wrote the play, background history and why this is significant to understanding the relationship between Catherine and Eddie.

Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, is teeming with characters that range from kings to fairies and witches. The character Gonzalo is an advisor to the King of Naples, Alonso, and is an old friend to Prospero, the overthrown Duke of Milan. Gonzalo's motivations throughout the play are to be more positive because he is encouraging his fellow lords and especially Alonso. He has narrative on the more positive parts of the play such as when he reunited with Prospero. In scene 2 act I, Gonzalo's motivation was to comfort Alonso on the loss of his son, Ferdinand.

Arthur Miller builds and maintains tension and conflict throughout the play. At the beginning of the play, tension is built through the relationship between Eddie and Beatrice. Eddie has unnatural feelings towards his niece-in-law and Rodolpho is taking her away from him. Beatrice realises his feelings towards Catherine, this builds the tension. Growing conflict is sensed through the attitude of Marco towards Eddie towards the end and Catherine’s approach to Eddie after she anticipates his feelings towards her.

Marco represents Sicilian culture, justice and embodies masculinity. He gives the reader the impression that he is well devoted towards his children and wife back in Sicily who are starving, poor with needs of healthcare and medicines. We know that one of the children is suffering from tuberculosis without any medicines when

A view from the bridge play by Arthur Miller is a play about Eddie Carbone jealous Beatrice’s cousin ( Rodolfo) which makes him start a chaos in the family and leads Eddie tried his best way to prevent Rodolfo marry Catherine which he is trying to, but at last, it failed. So he used betrayal method by calling immigration department and this can show that Miller have used betrayal as a main theme of the play by using stage direction and dialogues during the play through Vinny Bolzano betrayed the community, Eddie betrayed Marco & Rodolfo, Eddie betray Lipari’s family, Eddie betrayed his family, Catherine betrayed Eddie and lastly, Marco betrayed Alfieri. At the beginning of the play, there is a conversation discussing about Vinny Bolzano betray his family by calling immigration department which makes the family beat him up according to pg. 13-14 “They got stool pigeons all over this neighbourhood…..

Friendship is an idea which spans all cultures, but is expressed differently across cultural boundaries. In William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, the idea of friendship is critical, not only to the plot, but also for character development. A friend is, “A person with whom one has developed a close and informal relationship of mutual trust and intimacy; (more generally) a close acquaintance. Often with adjective indicating the closeness of the relationship, asbest, good, close, etc.”(Oxford ) Friendship is the display of trust and intimacy as well as caring for one another. Antonio and Bassanio are the best of friends. Although both Antonio and Bassanio’s characters possess different motivations for their actions, it is their strong

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” a quote by Charlie Chaplin. In a play filled with tragedy and comedy, Shakespeare demonstrates these attributes through various types of characters. The attributes determine the tragic bond that is being made between Shylock and Antonio, while the comedy is being played by Lancelot and the romances between the couples. Though William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice intends to have a series of comedic events that have occurred throughout the play; they are demonstrated through elements of disguise and deception, romantic comedy, and clever dialogues.

Here, Alfieri drives the nail home, so to speak, telling Eddie there’s nothing he can do to prevent the marriage. At this moment, Eddie’s intentions are clear – both to the audience and to Alfieri. “You won’t have a friend in the world, Eddie!....Put it out of your mind!” Desperate to stop the marriage, Eddie plans to ‘grass’ to the Immigration Bureau about Marco and Rodolpho. Alfieri is an Italian who’s lived in America for many years, meaning that he has a ‘foot’ in both cultures. As such, he understands the consequences of such an action. The audience themselves comprehend what the action entails too, since the story of Vinny Bolzano (a kid who snitched on his own family) is told early in the story. The Italian neighborhood is not forgiving of any who betrays his own family. Despite this, Eddie is fixed on this last course of action. “I want to report something. Illegal immigrants. Two of them.” There is still some hesitation, but Eddie cannot see another course of action. He’s in too deep to stop