In A View From The Bridge, Show How The Audiences Opinion Of Eddie :: English Literature

In A View From The distich, Show How The Audiences Opinion Of Eddie Changes.In A View From The Bridge, Show How The Audiences Opinion Of EddieChanges. elevate To The Dramatic Effects Of A Few Key ScenesA View From The Bridge is a tomboy by Arthur miller. It was firstproduced as a one-act play in verse in 1955, and had the name of AnItalian Tragedy. The play is rooted in the late 1940s when Millerbecame interested in the works and lives of the communities of thelongshoremen of New Yorks Brooklyn Bridge where he had previouslyworked. He mentioned it in his autobiography Timebends as waterfrontwas the Wild West, a desert beyond the law, where was populated andworked by people who came to America desire the American Dream,wealth, work and security which their own countries could notguarantee. This play was set in the 1950s, and at that time Americawas seen as the land of opportunity for many people, to get moving a newlife, escape their past or just for a change, people believed Am ericaheld the key. However this was not the case, as immigrants often livedin the closely run down parts of town and found themselves out of workand with little money to live on the or send their families at home.Miller was concerned with this living through the depression, whichbankrupted his father, and he saw the effects on the ordinary people.It was during this time that Miller heard a story from one of hislawyer friend of a longshoremen who had ratted to the immigrationbureau on two brothers, his own relatives, who were living illegallyin his very home, in order to break an engagement amongst one of themand his niece. This story became the model of A View From The Bridgewhen he paid a visit to Sicily and saw the awkward situation of theItalians without work and food, combine with his own experiences ofItalian immigrant workers in Brooklyn. Miller also wanted this play tobe a modern version of a Greek Tragedy, in which a central characteris led by fate towards an inevitable destiny thus when the finalversion of A View From The Bridge was published in 1956, he retainedmuch of the content of the verse but transformed it into prose. Inthis essay I shall discuss how the audiences opinion of the centralcharacter of the play, Eddie Carbone, changes and the factors that ascertain them.In the opening scene, when Eddie first appears on stage, the way he