View from a bridge

View from a bridge 

Opening

• Sense of wider community= important
• Eddie= Centre stage- until immigrants
• Alfieri= character and narrator
• Duty of commmunity to help with immigrants, widely accepted
• Viny B- Basis of irony/ foreshadow end.
• ALfierei= similair to beatrice- both calm in contrast to unruly/selfless
• Miller refused to snitch on his communist friends
• Say who makes feel about E
• Crafting- Vinny
• Change in behaviour from eddie as soon as R enters
• Building to a climax
• Original= 1 act in form of tradgedy
• Miller spent 2 years as a longshoreman
• Macbeth
• View from bridge
• strugg;e of ordinary people

Law and Justice

• Basis for play- illegal immigrants
• Justice- strong sense of community in RH
• Alfeirei summarises tf= imp- law suspicion justice= y
• Sense of happening everywhere
• CHange of atmosphere= very quick just coulple of lines + Miller builds up gradually
• Alfieri despite power feels helpless
• Marco kill E=illegal
• Alfieri= above- only god makes justice
• sees difference but still advices

Rodolpho + Catherine

• Immedieate- Married?
• Singing
• Becomes v serious
• Rodolpho= Catalyst

Eddie v Alfieri

• Speech- Alfieri v Eddie= coloquial
• Voice of reason
• Clearly right
• Alfieri represents both eddie + Marco- Mediator
• Alfieri suprised-doesnt codemn admires it a bit
• Wholly- not settle…