A View From The Bridge Extract Analysis
Understanding Poems, Prose and Plays: TMA02
Analyse a passage from A View from A Bridge that runs from “Eddie, moving up steps into doorway: Well, I’ll see ya, fellas” on page 5 to “Beatrice – her hands clasp at her breast; she seems half in fear, half in unutterable joy: They’re alright?” on page 8 of your edition of the play.
The extract took place in the beginning of the play in the first act before the arrival of Beatrice’s cousins. In this part of the development of the play, we are about to see Eddie’s many underlying yearning and conflict for affection with Catherine surface as the play progress, which will inevitably led to the catastrophe to happen with the introduction of Beatrice’s cousins into the play. The three characters …show more content…
On one hand, he is insinuating to her that she is too young to understand the world “…You’re a baby, you don’t understand these things…”, with the intention of making her question her own judgment in men and on the other, he knows that she is a grown woman, “You’re getting to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more, you can’t be so friendly, kid.”, implying that she is not capable of taking care of herself. The tension in Eddie trying to control Catherine would eventually escalate further as it is inevitable that Catherine would attract men, to his distain, when Rudolpho came into the picture. This part of the play revealed Eddie’s selfish scheming of power and control to engineer keeping Catherine all to himself, created tension in the events to come.
Beatrice eventually joins them in the living room and as Catherine gave news of her cousin’s arrival, her first reaction is to turn to Eddie for affirmation, instead of Catherine, who gave the news. There is a subtle underlying tension in the relationship between Beatrice and Catherine, which will soon surface when the conflict between Eddie and Catherine
Analyse a passage from A View from A Bridge that runs from “Eddie, moving up steps into doorway: Well, I’ll see ya, fellas” on page 5 to “Beatrice – her hands clasp at her breast; she seems half in fear, half in unutterable joy: They’re alright?” on page 8 of your edition of the play.
The extract took place in the beginning of the play in the first act before the arrival of Beatrice’s cousins. In this part of the development of the play, we are about to see Eddie’s many underlying yearning and conflict for affection with Catherine surface as the play progress, which will inevitably led to the catastrophe to happen with the introduction of Beatrice’s cousins into the play. The three characters …show more content…
On one hand, he is insinuating to her that she is too young to understand the world “…You’re a baby, you don’t understand these things…”, with the intention of making her question her own judgment in men and on the other, he knows that she is a grown woman, “You’re getting to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more, you can’t be so friendly, kid.”, implying that she is not capable of taking care of herself. The tension in Eddie trying to control Catherine would eventually escalate further as it is inevitable that Catherine would attract men, to his distain, when Rudolpho came into the picture. This part of the play revealed Eddie’s selfish scheming of power and control to engineer keeping Catherine all to himself, created tension in the events to come.
Beatrice eventually joins them in the living room and as Catherine gave news of her cousin’s arrival, her first reaction is to turn to Eddie for affirmation, instead of Catherine, who gave the news. There is a subtle underlying tension in the relationship between Beatrice and Catherine, which will soon surface when the conflict between Eddie and Catherine