appearance is too grown up and at 17 a short skirt and high heels is a big thing. Just in these first few pages we already start to feel an atmosphere of tension and it seems to be mounting. With the imminent arrival of the illegal immigrants – Marco and Rodolfo – there is defiantly tension building. We can see that Eddie is obviously very territorial about his home and Catherine! I think
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tension throughout. Not only do they describe the positions of the characters on the set; they help the reader to identify with their feelings. Miller begins the scene begins with a simple conversation about a recent trip to Africa which Marco and Rodolfo had undergone through
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especially when Marco and Rodolpho come into the country. Eddie is a simple man who has little interests outside of work and family; he is too protective of Catherine always laying down laws for her and expecting her to obey him. As the play develops Eddie is finding it more and more difficult to accept that Catherine is growing up this leads Eddie to change to a more aggressive‚ angry and jealous person leading to his eventual death. The obvious reason for Eddie’s death was that Marco was outraged
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brothers. The whole neighbourhood was crying." (p.13-15)The importance of honour in this play prevails the law‚ creating a connection with respect: to be honourable is to be respected. If you do anything dishonourable‚ you lose respect. That is why Marco and Eddie are so keen to protect their names and reach a ’just ’ conclusion. Codes of honour bind families and the whole neighbourhood with a sense of community. Everyone should look out for one another‚ to betray someone is the most dishonourable
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switch around each chapter we have: Ryan‚ Shay‚ Lexi‚ Marco and at the very end we have the Senator. They all have one thing in common‚ they are stuck in a suburban mall with a biochemical bomb that contain a super flu‚ and to stop this super flu from spreading the quarantine the mall with over 3‚000 people in it. It gets me thinking that maybe one of our characters could be an antagonist‚ and I think it is Marco. Marco Is a troubled high
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In what ways does Miller make this scene especially dramatic? Explore what it reveals about Eddie. Page 35-42 Miller uses a variety of ways to make this scene dramatic such as the use of stage directions and how they create a lot of tension between the characters. Miller also uses a lot of entrances and exiting between the characters allowing a dialogue to form‚ permitting an intense emotional confrontation between the characters. For example in the earlier scene‚ Eddie is talking to Alfieri in
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English Literature GCSE A View From The Bridge Characters: Eddie Alfieri Catherine Beatrice Rodolfo Marco Themes Law and Justice Betrayal and Family Loyalty / Codes of Honour Womanhood Masculinity Eddie Carbone Beginning Meeting with Alfieri End of act 1 - teaches Rodolfo to fight‚ tension with Marco Kisses When he calls the Immigration Office End - death * ’It’s too short‚ ain’t it...you’re walkin’ wavy’ - First appears to be very protective of Catherine. Doesn’t
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only. At the start of the play we out that Beatrice’s cousins are going to live with them. We then find out that Beatrice’s cousins are illegal immigrants from Italy. Marco decides to work in America to pay for his family‚ who live in Italy and are poor. Rodolpho came with Marco making it seem like he’s going to help Marco with his family. Eddie doesn’t like Rodolpho from the start of the play‚ but after Rodolpho starts dating Catherine Eddie starts to dislike him more. In this scene Eddie
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“A View From the Bridge” is written by Arthur Miller who was born in New York to a Jewish family. Miller worked in the Brooklyn shipyards for two years‚ where he befriended the Italians he worked alongside. He heard a story of some men coming over to work illegally and being betrayed. The story inspired ‘A View from the Bridge‘‚ which was written in 1950s but set in late 1940s. The play is set in Red Hook‚ New York‚ Alfieri quotes “The slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge…the
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on the Aeta Tribe’s culture in Marcos Village‚ Mabalacat‚ Pampanga in terms of their lifestyle and how it affects the country’s cultural preservation. Background of the Study Mabalacat became a town in 1712. It was named after the “Balacat” tree a fourth class Timber. “Mabalacat means full of “Balacat’. Then a settlement was established by a negrito tribe healed by a chieftain name Caragan‚ the area was a virtual forest of ‘Balacat’ trees. Marcos Village is a barangay of Mabalacat
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