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.
"On the twenty-third of that December a case of Scotch whisky slipped
from a net while being unloaded-". This introduction goes on to
introduce the scene and what usually happens at Christmas and what the
rest of the family are doing. Alfieri gives his views on the play. We
can be sure that these opinions of his will not be biased in any way
because Alfieri is a lawyer and in Brooklyn there are two sides to it
the rich side where all the famous are and where the people with high
paid jobs are like lawyers and doctors and actors live, but Alfieri
works for the people on the other side of Brooklyn where all the low
income family's live and where all the poverty is. So we can say that
Alfieri is the "View from the Bridge" He is the middle man he knows
both sides of the story. Alfieri tells this story backwards, as he has
already witnessed the story Miller has told. Alfieri evicts himself
from the people, who live in the poverty area by saying in his ...
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...merican citizen. It is important that Alfieri states the
law throughout so that the audience are clear what the characters
rights are and if they do some thing illegal they know whether it is
illegal or not and they are clear about what is happening.
Alfieri has a very important role within the play and he carries out
many roles as you have seen in the paragraphs above. Alfieri's role is
to be the narrator of the play, to outline the Law and Justice, to
introduce Red Hook and America in general. To create meaning and
atmosphere and to remind the audience that certain characters are not
as they first seem. For example he sympathises with Eddie. Alfieri is
one of the most important characters in this book he holds the play
together and ties all the loose ends up of the play and he brings the
play to an appropriate end.
the play. It looks at the person he is and the person he becomes. It
all of the play was written by John Diamond himself we only get to see
Lies play a central part in the play as the story is based around lies
right but he respecter it as if it was holy. After all the play is
so neatly that it as if is he himself is the playwright. He has no
reach into the ideas and themes of the play so we will have a good
The Role of Alfieri in A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller In Miller’s ‘A View From The Bridge’, Alfieri holds a vital role. He opens and closes the play, distinguishes between the two acts and in general keeps the audience up to date with the play’s swift pace, providing us with an inside understanding of the events which take place. What is interesting about Alfieri’s role is that he acts not only as a chorus for the play, but that he also partakes in the proceedings as a character within the performance. There are clear biographical links between the playwright, Arthur Miller’s life and ‘A View From The Bridge.’ Miller himself was the son of immigrants living in New York in 1915.
can see his importance in the title of the play; he is named in the
themes of the play and helps us gain insight on other characters. I find the following quote to be
of the play, but as far as the characters are concerned he is just an
this is important because it is a climax to the play so far and the
part of the make up of his play, but also uses the two characters to
look at both of the aspects of the play. In my piece of writing I
the role of a narrator. One role he takes on in the play is the voice
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born on May 12th, 1828 in London England. Rossetti died of blood poisoning on April 9th, 1882 (Authors). Rossetti studied at various academy's and schools. Dante was also a painter and an Italian translator as well as a poet. Rossetti was of British Nationality with Italian roots. “After the death of his wife he became a reclusive drug addict” (Authors).