Eddie Carbone is the tragic and self-interested main character from A View from the Bridge, a play by Arthur Miller. He is full of pride, and this pride means a lot. It also means that he will probably not back down in any circumstance. As the play opens, Eddie is a caring and loving character. Though he remains concerned to the very end, his behavior and true character suffer a hefty fall. He is the main character, yet the character I liked the least. The little likeability that I saw in him is gone within the first few scenes. Still, Eddie is the one major character that I believe goes through the most change and has the most interesting character arc.
The play takes place sometime in the 1950s. I gathered as much from the hairstyles and costumes, and then of course, the narrator confirmed my assumption. The story begins pretty light-heartedly, but the audience is introduced to the main conflict right away: Eddie’s overprotective obsession with Catherine. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but was excited when I found out the location and time period of the play. The first things we see are some men uncovering a few pieces of furniture to reveal the set. Then we see the narrator, who is the lawyer that Eddie sees later on in the play, explaining the predicament. Eddie Carbone is an Italian American forty-some year old longshoreman who is living in Brooklyn. He works on the docks from the Brooklyn Bridge (hence the name of the show.) He is living with his wife, Beatrice, and his niece, Catherine in a small first floor apartment. Catherine, now seventeen, lost her parents at some point in her life, and Eddie and Beatrice took her in, raising her as one of their own.
While most of Eddie’s character traits are internal, there are a few ...
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...is own wife in a long time. Eddie grabs her, yells at her, and to her horror, kisses her. He wants to show how much he loves her, and to prove to Rodolpho that she belongs to him. Eddie then forcefully kisses Rodolpho, trying to prove or imply that Rodolpho is homosexual. Catherine’s trust and loyalty and Rodolpho’s respect is at stake here. It is unfortunate that Eddie uses alcohol to ultimately get what he wants – the truth comes out once he is drunk. This whole scene also reaffirms his archetypal quality of a ticking time bomb. This is the scene in which he explodes.
Although I didn’t love Eddie as a character, I think it was meant to be that way. He had a few redeeming qualities in the end, and I did end up feeling bad for him. His tragic flaw is the bubble that he lives in, the constructed world he has built for himself, but is unable to escape or recognize.
The plot, Jackie navigates the life of a preteen in New York during the 1960s. This plot begins late in Jackie’s life since her story begins 12 years prior which is when she was born but begins at the most present moment in the play which is the now. Although all of the characters are being depicted through one phenomenal actress, the characters are limited to her parents, Perespone and her family, and the friends she makes along the way. As well as the scenes and locales are fairly limited all of the scenes take place on a geographic scale in New York, and on Erickson Street or Manhattan at her private school. This shown the privileges of a small set reaffirms the focus and tightness of the
Recently he met this girl who had knew a few answers to the question he is searching for. Eddie is on a dangerous path to his investigation,but he is determine to find the killer. After his cousin is killed, Eddie's aunt pressures him to avenge her son's death. Eddie drops out of City College and works odd jobs, all the while wondering about this, the latest of the senseless killings that have become a fact of life within the community. A run of unlucky breaks adds to his frustration as he is completely caught up in the violence he disapproves
Ethan Frome is a popular novel written in 1911 by Edith Wharton. The plot of the novel consists of an unnamed narrator who tells the tragic tale of a poor farmer in the New England area. Ethan Frome is married to a cranky old lady, but falls in love with his wife’s cousin who helps out around the house. In the climax of the story the two in love attempt suicide to free themselves from Zeena’s control but end up handicapped for the rest of their life. Even though he isn’t the protagonist of the story the character that needs to be analyzed is the narrator. Edith Wharton uses the narrator to retell his interpretations of the story of Ethan Frome and in turn reveals his inner thoughts.
The play is set in the present time during the month of September. It is about the midday and the sun is out. A house is located between Trenton and Princeton New Jersey, pretty much where the corn fields meet the highway. The play itself takes place in the living room of an old farmhouse. A lady by the name of Marjorie is at home by herself going though her everyday actions when she approached by a strange man that enters her kitchen. The man appears to act as if he is confused and at the wrong house and enters deeper into Marjorie's home. She tries to be safe and acts like she has a husband upstairs, but the man is well educated and knows better than that. He knows that it is a lie and travels deeper into Marjorie's personal space. When Marjorie finally realizes that her trickery isn't going to work she tries to escape out the door, but the strange man blocks her way. This man is Raul and his main goal is to rape and possible kill Marjorie. A struggle of power breaks out between the two and in the end Marjorie's using the strongest muscle she has against Raul. She tricks him into thinking that she really does like him, when all that time she is trying to reach for a can of wasp spray to use in defense. Raul is fooled and as his weakness of pleasure shines though Marjorie blocks it out by spraying Raul in the eyes with the wasp spray. She then locks him up into the fireplace and that is the end of act one. As act to progresses Raul brings up the point that the cops would arrest Marjorie before him, because he is the victim of the fight. As the day progresses Marjorie's roommates Terry and Patricia come home from work. By this time Marjorie wants to kill Raul and bury him in the back yard, the obstacle to made when her two roommates don't think that is the right thing to do.
Eddie Costello’s current view of the war is as a "sore asshole", but he says he started out as a "seventeen year old adolescent patriot". Eddies experience is similar to Johns in that he initially went to great lengths to participate in the war, lying about his age to get a munitions factory job at only 14.
In the play ‘A View from the Bridge’, an Italian-American family take in two illegal immigrants. The youngest of them, Rudolpho, falls in love with the niece of Beatrice, Catherine. Eddie Carbone, the main character, is driven by desire and lust, which eventually brings upon his own downfall. He calls the Immigration Bureau to arrest the two immigrants in an attempt to get his niece back, and so the scheme fails, and the play ends when Marco murders Eddie in a mere act of self-defence. Miller uses the character of Alfieri to increase dramatic tension throughout the play, doing so by introducing the idea of inevitability in the play. He establishes the character as a chorus, a component of early Greek theatre and tragedies. Alfieri basically expresses to the audience what the main character, Eddie Carbone, could not say, such as his fears or secrets. By knowing what will happen, and knowing how the play would end, whether a happy ending or sad, the principle of certainty and inevitability is revealed. Alfieri isn’t even capable of changing anything, altering the future, which also increases dramatic tension in the play. Throughout, Alfieri’s roles are obvious; he’s both the family lawyer and also the narrator of the play.
Solving the problem with Eadith, Eadith/Eddie has another issue to deal with, which is the love between Gravenor and h/er. S/he receives a letter from Gravenor, in which he writes:
As Eddie was growing up, he put team goals before his. He wanted to play football, he wanted to go to college by playing football, he wanted to win the Heisman Trophy, and he wanted to play in the pros. His mother Donna said, " to fulfill those goals, you have to build up your character." She was the "architect" in the family. Eddie, 22, and his sister Leslie, 25, who works for an insurance company in suburban Philadelphia, grew up in a single parent household, after their mother separated in 1980 from their largely absentee father, also named Eddie. They were later divorced, and Donna said that Eddie's relationship with his father remains distant. (5)
Everyone Eddie met in heaven taught him something about his life. They were all connected to him in different ways, whether it was someone close to him once, or a complete stranger. Somehow, all of their lives had crossed Eddie’s and helped make him the person that he had become. When you think about this lesson, you truly understand. One decision causes an effect, maybe on your life or maybe on someone else’s life. That effect will cause something else. It’s what I think of as a ripple effect. Everything happens for a reason, and all of the events that lead up to our “now” makes us who we are.
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"A View From A Bridge" is a play by Arthur Miller. It is set in 1950s
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In “ A View from the Bridge”, Rodolpho, the catalyst, is introduced in the exposition, and plays a major role in the play. He initiates the conflict by being attracted to Catherine, and by the fact that Catherine is attracted to him as well. The fact that he is introduced in the exposition, allows for the author to develop his character, and thus allows for the audience to sympathise with him instead of Eddie. This development gives the audience a high quality catalyst as it can relate to Rodplpho. Rodolpho creates a heavy tension in the family, due to his relationship with Catherine. This tension relates to the play’s theme of obsession as it is caused by Eddie’s obsession with Catherine. How Rodolpho relates to the main theme and develops the tension make him a quality catalyst.