Essays on A View From The Bridge

  A View from The Bridge is a modern drama play written by Arthur Miller and is based in the ’50s. The play is set in Red-Hook, the American Italian neighborhood. In this play, Eddie Carbone was portrayed by Miller as a tragic hero. This was surrounded by the demise of Eddie throughout the play....

Love, a complex set of emotions related to strong feelings of affection, protectiveness, warmth, and respect for another person. As Lord Byron once said, “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” Though love is the main theme of many stories throughout the ages, in A View from the Bridge many...

Miller presents many different forms of love in the play. The love in the play has been the key to the story and provides a storyline for the play. The first type of love is romantic love. This is shown by Eddie and Beatrice. They are a married couple and showed deep romance. At first,...

Eddie Carbone is the protagonist in A View from the Bridge. Miller has presented him as a character who is very hard to sympathise with. One of the main reasons being that he betrayed his family and broke the Sicilian code of honour. He did this by telling the authorities about the two illegal immigrants...

The 1940’s Red Hood an Italian of Italian immigrants who follow a common code of justice of silence .Eddie Carbone, a loving husband and uncle who gets swept by his feelings for his niece and betrays the loyalty of his whole community, family and friends with just a call, making this play a tragedy which...

Alfieri is Sicilian but has been an American for the past 25 years, working as a lawyer. A View From The Bridge was written and published in 1955 by Arthur Miller. I think Miller presents Alfieri as a well educated, sophisticated person who is singled out because of how educated he is compared to the...

The play A View From The Bridge, written by Arthur Miller, is about a longshoreman who welcomes his wife’s cousins as illegal immigrants. However, as the play develops, Eddie becomes jealous of his niece and Rodolpho, which causes the relationship between Eddie; a man with a strong sense of decency and Marco; a man with...

The theme of masculinity is brought out by all the men in the novel, the idea of being masculine is being someone who has strength, someone who is built and has muscles and someone who has dark hair. Masculinity is one of the main themes in the novel that lead to its climax and conclusion...

A view from the bridge was written by Arthur Miller, and was first performed in 1956. The plot is about a young girl Catherine who is cared for by her Aunt and Uncle, Beatrice and Eddie Carbone. As she grows up, Eddie begins to develop an infatuation with her, which eventually goes on to ruin...

In Arthur Miller’s tragedy, A View from the Bridge, the protagonist, Eddie Carbone strongly embodies the qualities of a Greek tragic hero. According to the definition proposed by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, tragic heroes typically make serious mistakes and judgements that lead to their downfall. It is crucial that the tragic hero is neutral on...