Analyse the portrayal of Eddie Carbone as a tragic hero. How does Miller use Eddie to create dramatic tension for the audience?

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Analyse the portrayal of Eddie Carbone as a tragic hero. How does Miller use Eddie to create dramatic tension for the audience?

The probing psychological tragedy "A View from the Bridge" by Arthur Miller explores Greek tragedy in the fifties. The play is set in Red Hook, the gullet of New York. Eddie Carbone, the main character, represents tragedy when his hamartia brings him his own misfortune, and consequently ends the play dramatically in tragedy. (Hamartia being an error of judgment or fatal flaw). "Pack it up. Get your stuff and get outta here." Eddie only takes his own views into perspective and fails to give Rodolfo a chance. Eddie's error of judgment against Rodolfo is a developing crisis of wrong decisions. These wrong decisions land Eddie with failed relationships with those who are close to him. Dramatic tension escalates continuously in act two ending with Eddie's fatal flaw, his own death. Eddie's death is fatal because it affects his family who care about him and they suffer as a result. Eddie is described as a tragic hero as he is an ordinary person, as opposed to a modern hero, who is stereotyped as a strong character, able