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... Eddie does not really understand his improper desire, and thus is unable to hide it from those around him or from the audience. ... Moreover, Mike and Louis seem to share this view: "He comes around, everybodys laughin ," says Mike. ...
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First, Rodolpho dances with Catherine, symbolically taking her from Eddie. ...
The third, and final movement comes from Marco, who invites Eddie to lift a chair by one of its legs. ... But although Eddies death was "useless", yet "something perversely pure calls to [Alfieri] from his memory - not purely good, but himself purely, for he allowed himself to be wholly known". ... And apart from this improper love, Eddie is a good man; and this love has its origin in the quite proper love of father for child, and Eddies sense of duty to his family and community. ...
Eddie has arranged for two of his wife Beatrices cousins from Italy to come to America illegally, as "submarines", and work on the docks. ...
View from a bridge
The whole of this play involves symbolism, on many different levels. ... Rudolpho danced with Catherine when she had previously been attending to Eddie, symbolic of him taking her from Eddie´s life. ... It is like being able to see from a bridge over a river, our vision uncluttered by opinions as it would be by the side of the river, or perhaps even as part of the river. The spray and swirling of currents of a river could represent the uncertain nature of life that clouds our perceptions and the flow of water the rush of emotions that carry us from birth to death. Though, even Alfieri is not completely removed from the happenings of the play, he takes an active part in the play as well as providing the chorus´ character of the Greek format that Miller used. ... On the bridge we have time to form opinions, to judge other people, to settle for half´. ... But the truth is holy, and even as I know how wrong he was and his death useless, I tremble for, I confess that something perversely pure calls to me from his memory--not purely good, but himself, purely, for he allowed himself to be wholly known and for that I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients."
This dilutes the feeling of superiority and detachment that we are permitted from the beginning of the play. The title A View from the Bridge´ no longer seems to imply the safety of distance from events, but the need to realise, and perhaps revise, our morals and opinions in our judgement of others. ...
Alternatively the bridge could be viewed as spanning the two cultures - American and Sicilian. ... On the other hand, the bridge could be seen as the merging of these cultures, the stronger American one dissolving the passions and identities of all its inhabitants. There could be further symbolism here, the metaphorical bridge between Catherine´s childhood and adulthood that can only be crossed once and leads her further into the constraints and limitations of her surroundings, is comparable to the way that the ardent naivety and ferocious simplicity of the Italian culture of her origins is absorbed into the impassionate American bureaucracy.
There are other journeys between extremes that could be the bridge´ of the play, e. ... Eddie´s unavoidable crossing from a happy family circumstance into the situation that Alfieri predicted "You wont have a friend in the world. ... As Eddie changes in character and his desperation increases his view of the events unfolding is warped. ...
However, I personally feel that the most likely reason for Arthur Miller´s naming of the play as "A View from the Bridge" is the obvious metaphor of the audience´s perspective.
Motivation of eddie in a view from a bridge
In this essay I am going to write about what motivates Eddie Carbone in THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. ...
Coming from a Sicilian background Eddie believed that the man should be the leader of the household and that everything goes by him first concerning his family and that he should be very manly and stand up for those close to him. ... He was so concerned about what the neighbourhood thought of him because he lived in Brooklyn which was a tough part of downtown New York and it was a close nit community meaning that everyone knew everyones business and everyone was from the same background as Eddie and had similar jobs so they were probably similar to Eddie, meaning that they cared about what the community thought of them. ...
I think his secret desire for Catherine motivates him a great deal in a way that he is so protective of her that he does not want her going out or wearing revealing clothes this is shown when he says "I think its too short" and he didnt like the way she walked "now dont aggravate me Katie you are walkin wavy" he probably didnt like the way she walked because it probably got attention from men and Eddie didnt like that because in a way he thought Catherine was his. ... He was so interested in himself that he kept on demanding respect from Marco "Wipin the neighbourhood with my name Marco ,now gimme my name and we go together to the wedding" here he was so interested in what other people thought of him that he couldnt see how it was destroying his marriage with Beatrice, his relationship with Catherine that eventually it would destroyed him, all because he was so motivated to thinking only about himself.
Approximate Word count = 4542
Approximate Pages = 18.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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