A View from a Bridge Quotes Flashcards
Eddie, honor and self pride?
- it’s an honor.
Rodolfo situation in Italy is poor?
- Yes, forever! me, I want to be an american.
Justice and Alferi?
- A lawyer means the law.
Alferi society is civil?
- Now we settle for half, and i like it better.
Eddie is worried about Cath?
- You’re walking wavy.
Bea is concerned of Eddie over protectiveness?
- She’s seventeen… you gonna keep her in the house all her life.
Alferi talks about negative atmosphere?
- Tenement buildings
- Slum
- Gullet of America
Eddie claims that R is breaking the law?
- Hes stealing from me.
Alferi attempting to calm Eddie?
- There is nothing illegal about a girl falling love an immigrant.
R disgusted at C allegation that he marrying to get papers?
- Do you think i would carry on my back the rest of my life a women that i didn’t love.
R attempting to mend relations with Eddie, however he has done nothing?
- It’s my fault Eddie. Everything. i wish to apologies.
Bea saying that she believes that Eddie loves Cath?
- You want somthin’ else and you can never have her.
Eddie attempting to puersude cath, that R wants passport?
- Katie he is only bowing to his passport.
Bea almost feeling that E is married to Cath?
- When am i going to be a wife again Eddie.
Symbolizes that Marco is stronger then Eddie?
- He’s a regular bull.
Alferi foresees Eddies destiny?
- Let is run its bloody course.
Marco accuses Eddie?
- I accuse him.
- That man murdered my children.
Eddie accuses Rodolfo of being gay?
- The man ain’t right
Eddie believes that there is a hidden social code?
- All the law is not in a book.
Eddie, talking about Vinny Bolzano who was cast away from his family because he snitched to immigration.
- Tell her about Vinny.
Eddie has no honor?
- Marco spits in eddies face.
Eddie wants his honor?
- You have been wiping the neighborhood with my name.
Eddie wants M and R to give back honor in front of neighborhood.
- Give it back to me in front of the neighbour hood.
Eddie now has no honor and he is hated by everyone.
- All turn away from Eddie.
Catherine begins to like Rodolfo?
- Hes a real blonde.
Eddie treats Catherine like a child?
- Don’t burn yourself
Graphic description of what happened to Vinny Bolzano
- His head was bouncing like a coconut
Vinny had no honor?
- And there spit on him in the street.
Doesnt matter how young, Vinny?
- He was about sixteen.
Cath knows Eddie snitched?
- She stands a moment staring at him in realizing horror.
About a view from a bridge?
- 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.
Interpretation?
The 2015 New Victoria Production ft Mark Strong, directer Van Hove
Eddie is a good man
Hes a good man
Eddie description
huskey, slightly overweight longshoreman
Alfieri was concerned for Eddie
His eyes were like tunnels
Eddie has ruined his life
Nobody’s going to talk to him again
Eddie dies
Eddie, the knife in his hands falls before Marco
Bea: Possible endings
The truth is not so bad a blood
Does’t want her to grow up and get a job?
She’s crazy to start work
Eddie respects her possible to much says she is perfect
You’re a Madonna type
Bea having to tell Eddie about the love.
She loves him Eddie
Description of Rodolfo
He’s a nice fella hard working
Eddie thinks Catherine is being played
hit-and-run guy
Eddies description of Rodolfo
he’s like a weird
description of Marco
A square built peasant of thirty-two
Conditions are bad in Italy
They eat the sunshine
you can’t cook the view
Description of Alfieri
A lawyer bin his fifties turning gray; he is portly good-humored, and thoughtful.
Christianity, the truth is important
The truth is holy
Masculinity: Eddie
Alpha
Reputation obsessed
breadwinner
Intelligent, offering advice, Vinny’s story
Protective
Aggressive
over-reacher - does not have total control.
Masculinity: Marco
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
Masculinity: Rodolfo
Canary, paper doll, blondie Contrast, weaker non-traditional gay? Dreamer Cook, dressmaker, singer younger then brother
Masculinity: Alfieri
Wise
Problem solver
Important figure
Horror of Vinney snitching?
- The kid snitched
- What, was he crazy!
Eddies growing hostility?
‘Eddie rises and moves upstage’
calls Rodolfo a ‘kid’
‘face is puffed with trouble’
Bea as a calming voice
- ‘well then be an uncle then!’
Use of language?
- a dream
- I had lost my strength
- almost transfixed
- which were like tunnels
GOTHIC LANGUAGE
Its a honour for Catherine to get picked for job.
They picked her out the whole class, its a honour for her.
Eddie worships C
Your the madona type
