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1
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Eddie, honor and self pride?

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  • it’s an honor.
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Rodolfo situation in Italy is poor?

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  • Yes, forever! me, I want to be an american.
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Justice and Alferi?

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  • A lawyer means the law.
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Alferi society is civil?

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  • Now we settle for half, and i like it better.
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Eddie is worried about Cath?

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  • You’re walking wavy.
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Bea is concerned of Eddie over protectiveness?

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  • She’s seventeen… you gonna keep her in the house all her life.
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Alferi talks about negative atmosphere?

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  • Tenement buildings
  • Slum
  • Gullet of America
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Eddie claims that R is breaking the law?

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  • Hes stealing from me.
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Alferi attempting to calm Eddie?

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  • There is nothing illegal about a girl falling love an immigrant.
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R disgusted at C allegation that he marrying to get papers?

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  • Do you think i would carry on my back the rest of my life a women that i didn’t love.
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R attempting to mend relations with Eddie, however he has done nothing?

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  • It’s my fault Eddie. Everything. i wish to apologies.
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Bea saying that she believes that Eddie loves Cath?

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  • You want somthin’ else and you can never have her.
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Eddie attempting to puersude cath, that R wants passport?

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  • Katie he is only bowing to his passport.
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Bea almost feeling that E is married to Cath?

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  • When am i going to be a wife again Eddie.
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Symbolizes that Marco is stronger then Eddie?

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  • He’s a regular bull.
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Alferi foresees Eddies destiny?

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  • Let is run its bloody course.
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Marco accuses Eddie?

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  • I accuse him.

- That man murdered my children.

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Eddie accuses Rodolfo of being gay?

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  • The man ain’t right
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Eddie believes that there is a hidden social code?

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  • All the law is not in a book.
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Eddie, talking about Vinny Bolzano who was cast away from his family because he snitched to immigration.

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  • Tell her about Vinny.
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21
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Eddie has no honor?

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  • Marco spits in eddies face.
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Eddie wants his honor?

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  • You have been wiping the neighborhood with my name.
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Eddie wants M and R to give back honor in front of neighborhood.

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  • Give it back to me in front of the neighbour hood.
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Eddie now has no honor and he is hated by everyone.

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  • All turn away from Eddie.
25
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Catherine begins to like Rodolfo?

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  • Hes a real blonde.
26
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Eddie treats Catherine like a child?

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  • Don’t burn yourself
27
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Graphic description of what happened to Vinny Bolzano

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  • His head was bouncing like a coconut
28
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Vinny had no honor?

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  • And there spit on him in the street.
29
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Doesnt matter how young, Vinny?

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  • He was about sixteen.
30
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Cath knows Eddie snitched?

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  • She stands a moment staring at him in realizing horror.
31
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About a view from a bridge?

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  • A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller, first staged on September 29, 1955.
  • The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love of, and almost obsession with, Catherine.
  • Miller said that he heard the basic account that developed into the plot of A View from the Bridge from a lawyer who worked with longshoremen, who related it to him as a true story.
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Interpretation?

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The 2015 New Victoria Production ft Mark Strong, directer Van Hove

33
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Eddie is a good man

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Hes a good man

34
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Eddie description

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huskey, slightly overweight longshoreman

35
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Alfieri was concerned for Eddie

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His eyes were like tunnels

36
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Eddie has ruined his life

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Nobody’s going to talk to him again

37
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Eddie dies

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Eddie, the knife in his hands falls before Marco

38
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Bea: Possible endings

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The truth is not so bad a blood

39
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Does’t want her to grow up and get a job?

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She’s crazy to start work

40
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Eddie respects her possible to much says she is perfect

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You’re a Madonna type

41
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Bea having to tell Eddie about the love.

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She loves him Eddie

42
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Description of Rodolfo

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He’s a nice fella hard working

43
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Eddie thinks Catherine is being played

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hit-and-run guy

44
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Eddies description of Rodolfo

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he’s like a weird

45
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description of Marco

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A square built peasant of thirty-two

46
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Conditions are bad in Italy

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They eat the sunshine

you can’t cook the view

47
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Description of Alfieri

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A lawyer bin his fifties turning gray; he is portly good-humored, and thoughtful.

48
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Christianity, the truth is important

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The truth is holy

49
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Masculinity: Eddie

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Alpha
Reputation obsessed
breadwinner
Intelligent, offering advice, Vinny’s story
Protective
Aggressive
over-reacher - does not have total control.

50
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Masculinity: Marco

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Family man
realist, compared to Rodolfo, who is a dreamer
Marco is strong 
Respectful towards women
Traditional Italian
Protective of Rodolfo
Powerful and damages Eddies reputation
51
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Masculinity: Rodolfo

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Canary, paper doll, blondie
Contrast, weaker non-traditional
gay?
Dreamer
Cook, dressmaker, singer
younger then brother
52
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Masculinity: Alfieri

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Wise
Problem solver
Important figure

53
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Horror of Vinney snitching?

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  • The kid snitched

- What, was he crazy!

54
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Eddies growing hostility?

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‘Eddie rises and moves upstage’
calls Rodolfo a ‘kid’
‘face is puffed with trouble’

55
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Bea as a calming voice

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  • ‘well then be an uncle then!’
56
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Use of language?

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  • a dream
  • I had lost my strength
  • almost transfixed
  • which were like tunnels
    GOTHIC LANGUAGE
57
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Its a honour for Catherine to get picked for job.

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They picked her out the whole class, its a honour for her.

58
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Eddie worships C

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Your the madona type

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