A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller Flashcards
Katie…if you wasn’t an orphan, ……run around with you like this?
Katie…if you wasn’t an orphan, wouldn’t he ask your father’s permission before he run around with you like this?
- omerta
- lack of respect from Rodolpho
- Although Catheriene is an American girl, Eddie is a hybird of Italian and American identity. Born in American but contains the ancient Italian’s desire for respect and revenge.
Theme: Omerta
“He knows I mind,….don’t you see that?”
“He knows I mind, but it don’t bother him if I mind, don’t you see that?”
- omerta
- lack of respect form Rodolpho
Theme: Omerta
“It aint’ so free …. think.”
“It ain’t so free here either, Rodolpho, like you think”
- omerta
- lack of respect from Rodolpho
Theme: Omerta
“Don’t! Stop that! Have respect for her!”
“Don’t! Stop that! Have respect for her!”
- As Rodolpho has slpet with Catheriene, he regards her as his. This creates an apparent friction between Eddie and Rodolpho.
Theme: Omerta
“I’ll kill you for that, you son of a bitch!”
“That one, I accuse that one!”
“I’ll kill you for that, you son of a bitch”
“That one, I accuse that one”
- Arthur Miller reduces Macro and Eddie into animal level that words no longer matters.
Theme: Omerta
“But the family ….snitched to the Immigration”
“But the family had an uncle that they were hidin’ in the house, and he snitched on the Immigration.”
- Vinny Bolzano’s story presents omerta is more important than family.
- The cost of breaking is banished or death.
Theme: Omerta
“If they are illegal they go back where they came from”
“If they are illegal they go back where they come from”
- ironic, the officers are Italian themselves, obeying omerta.
Theme: Omerta
“But I don’t …. do you?”
“But I don’t think you want to do anything about that, do you?
- Alferi obeying omertia
Theme: Omerta
What does Eddie call Catherine as while repeated three times in the early of novel?
“Madonna”
Connotative meaning:
- Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ
- purest and their universal mother
- this foreshadows the reason of harmtia occurred when Rodolpho had feelings for Catherine.
“The guy …. Mr Alfieri”
“The guy ain’t right, Mr Alfieri”
- Eddie doesn’t accept Catherine being taken away.
“Heh? ….Heh?”
“Heh, I’m just around the neighbourhood, that’s all. Heh?”
- breaking omertà
- implies he fully understands how enormous the betrayal is among his fellow Italins
“I want my name! …. Marco got my name….”
“I want my name, he didn’t take my name; he is only a punk. Macro’s got my name…”
- Eddie turned from welcoming into hatred.
- Eddie insist he will accept the apology if Macro does it in front of neighbourhood. Eddie wants to redeem his code of honour.
“You lived in a …. your life.”
“You lived in a house all your life, what do you know about it? You never worked in your life.”
- Eddie resist the idea of Catheriene working.
“Gee, that’s hard, I never knew that”
“Gee, that’s hard, I never knew that”
“he transforms what might appear like a glare of warning into a smile of triumph, and Eddie’s smile vanishes as he absorbs his looks.”
- the climax of Eddie releazing Macro has the total control in the play.