Settling for Half in Arthur Miller's Play a View From the Bridge
In this essay I will look at the idea of settling for half. In the
play, A View From The Bridge, the idea of settling for half is used
many times. This idea makes the play more tragic especially when a
certain character doesn't settle for half. To understand what settling
for half is we will have to establish what it means. Settling for half
is a sort of compromise. Most people would rather settle half than get
into trouble like the character Eddie Carbone should have done so
therefore people see settling for half as a good thing. But it isn't
always a good thing sometimes you may not get the result you would
want to get from settling for half. That is why in the play Eddie
Carbone didn't want to settle for half because otherwise he would lose
Catherine, whom he wanted to keep.
In this play there are many characters and the roles that the
characters play are similar to nearly every tragedy. One such
character is Alfieri who even though he plays two roles he is one of
the most significant characters. I say this because he plays one part
as a lawyer and another as a narrator/commentator. In his
commentator/narrator role Alfieri is Miller's mouthpiece so anything
that Miller wants to get across he can do by using Alfieri. Also he is
used to prepare us for any upcoming events. In his lawyer role he acts
as a good advice character to the tragic character, which in this play
is a person, called Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone is the tragic
character because he doesn't settle for half and as a result he ends
up getting killed at the end.
In the quotation above Alfieri says "…And now we are quite civilized,
quite American …". He says this because the Americans have a law,
which is written down on paper so it is a fixed law that can only be
changed by the government. At the beginning of the play Alfieri says
The statement,“The Crucible is essentially about courage, weakness, and truth,” is proven true numerous times, throughout the play. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller, about the true events that happened in Salem, Massachusetts, between the years 1692 and 1693. The Salem witch trials consisted of many hangings, lies, and complete mass hysteria. The citizens of Salem followed the religion of Puritanism, and the ideas of predestination. The root of the mass hysteria comes from their belief in the sense that in something happens then it must have been planned by God. In Miller’s portrayal of the story, Abigail Williams was the ringleader of the witch trials, and she used the idea of predestination to cover up her own sins. Abigail was a very manipulative girl and ruined many lives. John Proctor, Mary Warren, and Elizabeth Proctor were just a few of the victims in Abby’s game. John, Mary, and Elizabeth exhibit the traits courage, weakness, and truth, whether it was in a positive or negative way.
ruinously impact a whole community, is very aptly titled. By definition, a “crucible” is “a severe test,” and the challenges faced by Miller’s characters are many. The historical events dramatized in the play reflect how core human values, including truth, justice and love, are tested under life and death conditions. The trials of the characters and the values they hold dearly come when their simple, ordered world ceases to be black and white and easily deciphered, and is turned upside down in the gray shades of ambiguity.
Mark Overvold (1980) argues that preferentist theories of value have trouble accommodating the view that agents can deliberately choose to perform actions that can be described as self-sacrifice. This essay will examine Overvold's article, and explain the problems that preferentism has with the idea of self-sacrifice.
There are many influences on the way our law is formed and it can come
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I hope you are having a wonderful second week of class. I was not familiar with the Canterbury Tales before this class. After reading The Miller's Tale along with a few others, I an enjoying them. I agree with your take on the humor and form Chaucer uses in The Miller's Tale. The use of satire in The Miller's Tale is effective for the tone of the tale.
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