A View From The Bridge :: English Literature

A View From The BridgeArthur Miller clearly uses assorted flavours of his range A view fromthe bridge to create dramatic tension. His exchange character Eddie isthe person around who has a great deal of involution revolving aroundhim. He creates a lot of tensions and each moving picture of competitiveness becomesstronger than one before.He lives with his wife and her niece Catherine. Eddie is veryprotective of Catherine and wants her to get a good education. He alsoseems to be in complete with Catherine merely refuses to face this fact atany stage in the play even when Beatrice, his wife, points it out tohim clearly.We also witness Eddies verbal contravention with all the characters atsome point throughout the play. Other aspect is how the othercharacters feel concerned near him. There is a scene of unease as wesee how Catherine and Beatrice are unsure about how he will react whenhe is told about Catherines job. As we pull in Catherine is deeplyinfluenced by Eddie and doe s everything he wants and Beatrice warnsher not to act like a child in front of Eddie.The introduction of two foreign characters from Italy( Marco andRodolpho) to this workings class environment of New York creates a good deal of the battle and tension in the play.Rodolpho is not married, good looking, lively and able to agnizeinterest easily, in fact Catherine seems to have been immediatelyattracted to him. He dreams of macrocosm rich and returning to Italy witha monocycle. So Catherine falls in love with him and as soon as theybegin to date Eddie gets very annoyed, as he is very possessive. Heobjects to the relationships between Catherine and Rodolpho because heis secretly exclusively very jealous.Tension increases in Act One as Catherine boasts to Eddie thatRodolpho has been to Africa. Eddie and Marco break their travels onfishing boats and Beatrice asks why they have to go out on boats tofish so Marco tells her that the only fish she will catch from the bound are sardines. Audience see that Catherine and Beatricecontemplate about the thought of sardines in the ocean. Catherinethinks the idea of sardines in the ocean is as strange as oranges on atree. Eddie agrees with Catherine and makes weird announcement sayingthat he heard about painting oranges to make them look orange becausethey grew green on the tree. It sounds intelligible for us thatRodolpho disagrees with Eddies thoughts about the oranges andBeatrice feeling some kind of conflict sexual climax up quickly diverts it by