A View From The Bridge
Arthur Miller clearly uses different aspects of his play “A view from
the bridge” to create dramatic tension. His central character Eddie is
the person around who has a great deal of conflict revolving around
him. He creates a lot of tensions and each scene of conflict becomes
stronger than one before.
He lives with his wife and her niece Catherine. Eddie is very
protective of Catherine and wants her to get a good education. He also
seems to be in love with Catherine but refuses to face this fact at
any stage in the play even when Beatrice, his wife, points it out to
him clearly.
We also witness Eddie’s verbal conflict with all the characters at
some point throughout the play. Other aspect is how the other
characters feel concerned about him. There is a scene of unease as we
see how Catherine and Beatrice are unsure about how he will react when
he is told about Catherine’s job. As we understand Catherine is deeply
influenced by Eddie and does everything he wants and Beatrice warns
her not to act like a child in front of Eddie.
The introduction of two foreign characters from Italy( Marco and
Rodolpho) to this working class environment of New York creates a
good deal of the conflict and tension in the play.
Rodolpho is not married, good looking, lively and able to gain
interest easily, in fact Catherine seems to have been immediately
attracted to him. He dreams of being rich and returning to Italy with
a monocycle. So Catherine falls in love with him and as soon as they
begin to date Eddie gets very annoyed, as he is very possessive. He
objects to the relationships between Catherine and Rodolpho because he
is secretly but very jealous.
Tension increases in Act One as Catherine boasts to Eddie that
Rodolpho has been to Africa. Eddie and Marco describe their travels on
fishing boats and Beatrice asks why they have to go out on boats to
fish so Marco tells her that the only fish she will catch from the
beach are sardines. Audience see that Catherine and Beatrice
contemplate about the thought of sardines in the ocean. Catherine
thinks the idea of sardines in the ocean is as strange as oranges on a
tree. Eddie agrees with Catherine and makes weird announcement saying
that he heard about painting oranges to make them look orange because
they grew green on the tree. It sounds understandable for us that
Rodolpho disagrees with Eddie's thoughts about the oranges and
Beatrice feeling some kind of conflict coming up quickly diverts it by
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read, you can use it to predict/ sum up what will happen in the play.
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