A view from the bridge is set in New York City in the 1950s.
Arthur Miller was born October 17th 1915 in New York City. His parents
were both immigrants in the United States and were originally from
Sicily. Arthur’s father had a successful business but it collapsed,
along with the American economy as a whole,
Following the Wall Street crash, as a result, Arthur had to work as a
warehouseman in order to save his fees before he was able to go to
Michigan University in 1934 to study Economics and History. I think he
has the same background ‘The view from the bridge’.
A view from the bridge is set in New York City in the 1950s, with a
Sicilian background. Sicily is the home of all the characters which is
an island in Italy. The characters change from old world Sicily to new
world America in the book. Sicily had been invaded a lot of times by
different countries, so this made the Sicilian people develop a
culture of not talking or reporting to the authority, so the people of
Sicily dealt with their own problems between their communities. Sicily
was a very poor country after ww2 because Italy lost the war in 1948.
A view from the bridge has a theme of old world Sicily and new world
America, there is a lot of masculine and famine emotion between the
characters. The characters brought their culture with them from Sicily
to America and one of their main rules never to broken is don’t snitch
to authority, the worst crime a Sicilian can do is snitch to the
authority and Sicilians either kill the person for snitching or
reject the person from the Sicilian community. I think the book
evolved around the Sicilian culture. Incest is another theme of the
book because Rodolfo and Catherine are in love even do there cousins ,
Eddie began to get attracted to Catherine who was his niece and
other themes in this book is obsession, desire and control.
Beatrice meant a lot at first to Eddie but when he was starting to
loose Catherine, Beatrice knew that Eddie is attracted to Catherine in
a different way from just family love but loved her in a sexual way; I
think Beatrice became jealous of Catherine because Eddie was playing
more attention to Catherine and forgot all about her,
I think this challenged Eddies masculinity because he wasn’t
performing in bed and controlling his marriage like a masculine man
should do.
I think the most dramatic scenes in the play is when Eddies
masculinity is challenged and the Sicilian way of life is being
Gilbert’s use of imagery emphasizes the wild, vibrant, energetic nature of the city of Naples. It becomes clear that, In Gilbert’s eyes, Naples is a city unlike any other. The author writes, “An anthill inside a rabbit warren, with all the exoctism of a Middle Eastern bazaar and a tough of New Orleans voodoo” (Gilbert 175). This shows
Castex, Jean. Architecture Of Italy. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 5 Feb. 2012.
The 1950s seemed like a perfect decade. The rise of suburbs outside cities led to an expansion of the middle class, thus allowing more Americans to enjoy the luxuries of life. The rise of these suburbs also allowed the middle class to buy houses with land that used to only be owned by more wealthy inhabitants. Towns like Levittown-one of the first suburbs- were divided in such a way that every house looked the same (“Family Structures”). Any imperfections were looked upon as unfavorable to the community as a whole. Due to these values, people today think of the 1950s as a clean cut and model decade. This is a simplistic perception because underneath the surface, events that took place outside the United States actually had a direct effect on our own country’s history. The rise of Communism in Russia struck fear into the hearts of the American people because it seemed to challenge their supposedly superior way of life.
Picture Manhattan in 1860, a time before the city had been dolled up and gotten ready for the silver screen, before the glamour and allure took over. Amsterdam Vallan (DiCaprio) is a young Irish man that migrates to the USA at a young age. Amsterdam’s story takes place in Five Points District of New York, a filthy and dangerous part of the city before it was deleted form history. As a young boy Vallan witnessed his father’s murder at the hand of William Cutting or Bill the Butcher (Day-Lewis) during one of their many gang wars. As Amsterdam’s story progresses along side The Butcher they become inseparable, but Amsterdam had ulterior motive. Ultimately, Amsterdam attempts to betray his new found ally in order to avenge his father’s death. Historical accounts of events are almost always synthesized by the storyteller; in the case Gangs of New York Martin Scorsese tells of Five Points, The Dead Rabbits Riots, and The Draft Riots, but is his fictional story accurate through history?
"The Campo Santo, Venice." Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo Museum of Art. Web. 19 Dec. 2011.
Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler utilized extreme camera angles to seize Manhattan’s forceful and lively qualities. The intentionality of their work is key, their cameras aren’t free traveling. Paul Strand and Walter Benjamin’s camera position is not accidental. Where they set up the camera is not where something will happen, rather where the happenings take place, and turns the subjects of his work into narrators, where the camera acts as a listener. When they rearranged the position of the camera as opposed to the subjects, the pictures were freed in a sense, almost to a point where you could put all his pictures together and they’d transform from still life to abstraction.
Literally, the bridge is a path with a massive amount of people from all walks of life engaging in the market atmosphere. This is our main node because it is a junction between the people and the river, which the river is also another path. There is a continuous movement, and the interactions going from the zoom-out picture into the zoom-in picture that has interesting one-on-one interactions. Example, the man purchasing something from a selling stand. The sounds of people talking blend in with the animals’ footsteps and the river that everything is occurring along it. Right from the start of the video, the viewer can see a woman in a carriage. By including the women throughout the video, we emphasize their separation from the rest of the movements and traffic of people occurring. The women are distinctive
was to be seen over almost all the earth, but especially in Italy and in Gaul, a
It is a departure from the classical style of the preceding Italian Renaissance religious work yet it still recalls classical Rome with its depiction of Roman mythology. The whole scene takes place in a tightly composed space with the figures filling the wood panel completely
Jonas Lie had created “Dusk on the lower Broadway” in 1910 with short brushwork, and atmospheric rendering. Jonas Lie’s love for travel is what enlightened him to the works of Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Henri Matisse. In Dusk on the lower Broadway, just as the titles suggests, Lie captures the image of a busy New York afternoon on Broadway. Jonas Lie was rather famous in New York during this time, being most remembered for his paintings on the Panama Canal, which are now in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Looking more deeply into the painting, we can see that the painting shows a person (a child maybe) on the right-hand side trying to cross the busy street of Broadway.
To begin with Sicily’s position, at the convergence of the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, it’s position straddling the continents of Europe and Africa and it’s abundance of natural resources including citrus, wheat and olives made it an ideal location for trade and foreign commerce as well as a prime target for piracy which brought with it various forms of violence effecting both human life and economic stability.
Gilbert’s use of imagery emphasizes the wild, vibrant, energetic nature of the city of Naples. It becomes clear that, In Gilbert’s eyes, Naples is a city unlike any other. The author writes, “An anthill inside a rabbit warren, with all the exoctism of a Middle Eastern bazaar and a tough of New Orleans voodoo” (Gilbert 175). This shows us how Gilbert sees Naples better than if she had chosen to describe the city detail by painstaking detail. Gilbert combines aspects of places in other countries in a way that gives the reader a clear image of Naples overall atmosphere. Gilbert writes, “The city is all decorated with the laundry that hangs from every window and
Manon was I love with one man, her father. She loved him to death, and would have done
On February 13, Mr. Ambrosio’s Honors Shapers class will depart for Italy. This will be the first time in years that Blind Brook students have gone abroad for a school trip. The students are very excited to explore the many sights of Italy. Senior Soapie Dellorusso said, “I know Italy is a very cool place and I am excited to go there.” Senior Andrea Bartolotta agrees, saying, “It’s going to be really exciting. I can’t wait to explore Italian culture.”
The one reading that I connected with this week was "I Go Adventuring" by Helen Keller. She describes the view from the bridge "the view is loveliest in the morning and at sunset when one sees the skyscrapers rising like fairy palaces, their million windows gleaming in the rosy-tinted atmosphere", I have personally experience the "loveliest mornings and the sunsets in the past. I took the M train for four years, five days a week to high school and crossed the Williamsburg Bridge every single time. The view of the city on my way to school and on my way back home, never failed to amaze me. She also describes Broadway and the way people that brush past her seem to be "always hastening toward a destination they never reach. Their motions are eager,