A View From The Bridge - the dramatic impact of act two pages 43-49 and the events that in act two.

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Hafsa Yasmin Ali 10E        Page         03/05/2007

sA View From The Bridge

In this essay I will discuss the dramatic impact of act two pages 43-49 and the events that has happened in act two.

The relationship between Eddie, Beatrice and Catherine has changed since the arrival of Marco and Rodolfo. In the opening scene we could tell there was a family relationship with Beatrice taking the role of the mother Eddie as the over-zealous father and Catherine as the dependant daughter.

Eddie works hard as a Brooklyn longshoreman. He's faithful to his wife Beatrice and has done a great job raising her late sister's daughter, Catherine. Now Eddie has agreed to let two of Beatrice's cousins from Italy, Marco and Rodolfo to stay in their small apartment. All Marco wants is a chance to earn money to send home to support his wife and children. The young, single Rodolfo has come along to help. Eddie opens his home to them and carefully instructs Beatrice and Catherine to keep their mouths shut about their boarders in case immigration officials catch wind of them

Arthur Miller uses stagecraft (light rises on Alfieri at his desk) to focus on the lawyer and to emphasise his role as the narrator. He also takes the role as the family lawyer Alfieri a man who describes his practice as "entirely unromantic", who gives us his view of the events on what has happened so far to the characters and what might happen and the feelings the characters reveal.

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We as the audience have to trust him because he is a guide through the play to make us understand. He tells us that Catherine talked to him, this tells us as the audience that something is about to happen

 The scene continues highlighting the sexual tensions between Catherine and Rodolfo “are you hungry?” “Not for anything to eat.” The audience could be anxious because Eddie is never away and they would be shocked at Rodolfo’s openness. At this stage Rodolfo has become more mature. His language is more expressive and more eloquent he uses the metaphor of ...

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