“A View from the Bridge”

“A View from the Bridge”
An influential decision that will be made by Eddie Carbone, a dock worker from lower Manhattan, will change the course of this play. Arthur Miller’s play ‘A View from the Bridge’ is a play written in the image of a Greek tragedy. When Eddie involves the Immigration Bureau in the plot to reveal his wife’s cousins who are illegal immigrants from Italy everything is set in motion for a tragic ending. During the course of the play we are told of the story of Vinny Bolzano that will become all too true for Eddie Carbone.
Alfieri, the plays chorus, introduces us to Eddie. Alfieri puts across the point that Eddie through his own self-destruction will meet a tragic and violent death at the climax of the play. Eddie is a decent, hardworking man with a good life and a good family. When we are introduced to the cousins by Eddie which puts across some irony as he introduced them and they will finish him. From the moment that Eddie sets his eyes on R...