A View From The Bridge Tension Essay

Tension in Miller's A View from the Bridge

In class, recently we have been reading: "A View from the Bridge" by Arthur Miller. We have been exploring his magnificent techniques in being able to show the immense tensions between a family and his excellent ways of using this to grab the audience.

After reading "A View From a Bridge", I found it amazing how Miller shows how tense Eddie's world is and how he surrounds the family with this cramped world, creating such immense tension. In my opinion I think that the setting and time is perfect to match the situations and to build up on the dramatic atmosphere.

The book was set after World War II, when many immigrants were coming over to find jobs for money to send back home or for money

Red Hook is a regular Italian community, full of Italian immigrants needing work. Most of which originated from Sicily therefore carrying their code of silence, ‘Omerta', which secrecy is sworn to by oath; this ‘Omerta', of sworn secrecy causes havoc through out the play. Miller's idea of situating the Carbones' flat in the borough of Red Hook raised the tension as, as well as their own tension their whole community surrounding then had bubbling tension and troubles. The Carbone Flat was absolutely tiny; "homely; "clear"; "sparse"; completely claustrophobic, with this everyone was on top of everyone and tensions were getting mixed and rising over the bar. With the house being so claustrophobic there was little privacy space for any of them. The set of the play is merely a skeleton of it. What the play contains is of more

Eddie had a negative view on Rodolfo; he hasn't liked him since the minute he stepped through the door. All the hatred of the relationship built by Miller, between Eddie and Rodolfo, causes a large mass of tension to arise: "What's the matter with you? He's a nice kid, what do you want from him?", "That's a nice kid? He gives me the heeby-jeebies". In my opinion I think that Miller creates this mini scene between Beatrice and Eddie to engage us fully through Tension, made by a relationship that hasn't bonded.

In Act 1 we can see that Beatrice's and Eddies' relationship has been on the rocks. All through the scene so far we have been able to see that Eddie hasn't been treating Beatrice as the wife in which Beatrice wishes: " When am I gonna be a wife again, Eddie?"...................... "It's alright B.; just lay off me will ya? I'm worried about her". Miller creates a conversation between Beatrice and Eddie building it up level by level with tension. In my opinion relationships are the biggest contentions to emotions; emotion is the course of