A View From The Bridge :: English Literature

A View From The BridgeArthur Miller clearly uses different aspects of his play A view fromthe bridge to create dramatic tension. His central character Eddie isthe person around who has a great deal of conflict revolving aroundhim. He creates a lot of tensions and each scene of conflict 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 love with Catherine but 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 conflict with all the characters atsome point throughout the play. Other aspect is how the othercharacters feel concerned about him. There is a scene of unease as wesee how Catherine and Beatrice are unsure about how he allow react whenhe is told about Catherines job. As we agnise Catherine is deeplyinfluenced by Eddie and does everything he wants and Beatrice warnsh er not to act like a child in front of Eddie.The introduction of two foreign characters from Italy( Marco andRodolpho) to this working tell environment of New York creates a good deal of the conflict and tension in the play.Rodolpho is not married, good looking, lively and able to gaininterest easily, in fact Catherine seems to have been immediatelyattracted to him. He dreams of being 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 but very jealous.Tension increases in conduct One as Catherine boasts to Eddie thatRodolpho has been to Africa. Eddie and Marco describe 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 thebeach 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 graspable for us thatRodolpho disagrees with Eddies thoughts about the oranges andBeatrice feeling some kind of conflict coming up quickly diverts it by