Themes In a View From a Bridge

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Arthur Miller was born on October 17th, 1915, in New York City. The play written around 1946 and is based on the living community of dockworkers and longshoreman in New York’s Brooklyn harbor. Miller is deeply concerned with Greek Tragedy and he uses Eddie as the tragic protagonist in his play. The main themes in the play are masculinity, justice, love and jealousy; and Miller skillfully develops each of them by setting and characterization. The theme masculinity is very important in the play due to the time it was written. Woman was put down and was lower to the men. In the play, Miller uses Eddie as an example of the theme masculinity. At the beginning of the play, Eddie is a family man and who cares about the family. Eddie and Catherine is niece had a very close relationship, which is proved by the stage directions, which frequently tells us in on the way that they acted together, physically. Catherine 'taking his arm,' and 'walking him to the armchair.' Both of these instances portray a rather 'touchy' and sensitive connection between the both of them. And his niece but as the cousins of the wife Beatrice comes to New York, his character changes dramatically. He cannot tolerate the fact that his niece falls in love with Rodolpho, which changes him and his character. He tries to show that he is the man of the house, “I want my respect” and tries to mock Rodolpho but fails miserably. His actions lead to his ruination. Moreover, Alfieri, the lawyer, establishes that justice and the law, which are going to be important in the play in his opening speech. ."In the play we see that Eddie betrays Marco and Rodolpho, there is no law to punish Eddie so Marco takes the law into his own hands, the play ends with a fight to the death. Alfieri reiterates his beliefs at the end of the play: "Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better."
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