Laura Gatti 10H ‘A View From The Bridge’ essay
Arthur Miller creates moments of dramatic conflict. Select any two of these and discuss their impact on the play as a whole.
In the 1920s the American government passed a law that restricted illegal immigrants. Italian immigration was almost completely stopped. Only 3845 Italians were permitted to legally enter America each year. Arthur miller was particularly interested in modern day society and modern day family life. Miller, who was born in 1915, grew up in New York as part of a Jewish family. In 1983, he graduated from the University of Michigan where he had begun to distinguish himself as a playwright. His first plays were ‘Hours of Dawn’, in 1936, and ‘No Villain’, in 1937, which won the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards. In 1953, Miller wrote ‘The Crucible’, during the McCarthy period, when Americans were accusing each other of pro-communist beliefs. Many of Miller’s friends were being attacked as communist and in 1956, Miller was brought before the House of Un-American Activities Committee where he was found guilty of communist beliefs but in 1957 the verdict was reversed in an appeals court but Miller still held communistic views.
