Act 1 Tension in "A View From the Bridge"

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The title of the play is “A view from the bridge and it was written by Arthur Miller in 1995 during the post war period. A post-war period is the interlude immediately after the beginning of a war and continues for as long as another war does not happen. During this period migration was very popular as especially in the Europe area as they were severely affected by the world war and the majority of the people migrated to the United States of America like Marco and Rodolfo who had migrated from Sicily and illegally entered the US and had stayed with Eddie and his wife Beatrice and their niece Catherine. As we get to towards the climax of act 1 tension increases grows within the household as a relationship develops between Catherine and Rodolfo. As the scene commences there is a dispute about the time the young couple returned from the cinema. Eddie is sitting there quietly reading a newspaper and Catherine gets up and asks Rodolfo to dance as she drags him up and the scene directions tells us that ‘he gets up stiffly ,feeling Eddie’s eyes on his back.’ Beatrice is watching Ed...

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