A view from the bridge

Discuss the importance of stage directions in Arthur Millers “A View from the Bridge” and what they reveal about the character.

The play is about a man called Eddie Carbone who is unaware that he has feelings for his niece (who isn’t blood related). In this essay will we be discussing how the stage directions help to find out about the character inside.

In plays, you can’t just have writing. The writing only what you say but without stage directions, you wouldn’t know how it was said. For instance, if you said, “What did I do?” and there were no stage directions by it, you could take it anyway and read it unenthusiastically, too enthusiastically or just not how it was supposed to have been read out.
But stage directions also have different jobs. They don’t just have to be about how the words are said, they also show what the character is doing as they say what they say, which shows how the character really feels.
Many people use stage directions. The director u...