A View From The Bridge Flashcards
Codes of Honour
Eddie - “I want…”
“I want my name”
Eddie after Marco exposes him to the neighbor hood, he’s not even thinking about the potential danger he’s put the cousins in, he just cares about his respect
Codes of Honour
Marco - “…book…”
“The law? All the law is not in a book.’
Codes of Honour
Eddie - “…wavy”
“Your’e walkin wavy”
On one hand Eddie wants to be a father figure to Catherine and be protective his thing with if you wasn’t an orphan but he also wants to kiss her so…
Codes of Honour
Beatrice - “…spit on him…”
“And they spit on him in the street, his own father and his brothers. The whole neighborhood was cryin’.”
Love
Eddie - “B!”
“Oh, B.!’
‘My B.!“
Finally in his last moments, Eddie realizes how much Beatrice has been at his side, and how much he loves her
Love
Beatrice - “have her”
“You want somethin’ else, Eddie, and you can never have her!”
Beatrice finally says
Love
Beatrice “…cut it out…”
Beatrice “…sick and tired…”
“Beatrice: …Eddie, I want you to cut it out now, you hear me? I don’t like it! Now come in the house.”
“BEATRICE: Look, I’m sick and tired of it. I’m sick and tired of it!”
Eddie’s feelings are affecting his marriage when am I gonna be a wife again- he doesn’t want to have a relationship with Eddie cuz of his feelings for Catherine
Justice and the Law
Alfieri - “…like it better”
‘Now we settle for half, and I like it better.’
Alfieri is saying that he prefers the way A,Erica does the law, to the way it’s down in Italy
Justice and the Law
Alfieri - “…important here”
‘Justice is very important here.’
They live by rules, not necessarily the laws but their own rules - their code of conduct/honour
Justice and the Law
Alfieri - “…the law is wrong…”
‘When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now.’
Eddie’s love for Catherine is wrong, and he can’t take things into his own hands
