Arthur Millers A View From the Bridge Essay -- Arthur Miller View Br

Arthur Millers A View From the BridgeToday hostility is viewed upon as wrong, when A View From the Bridgewas written, hostility made up part of the day-to-day running ofpeople in this age. Today women are treated as equals and alldiscrimination is taken incredibly seriously, in the time the playwritten, women had very few rights and were constantly stereotyped andabused.Manliness, hostility and aggression play an important power in theplay, A View From the Bridge. Each character has a different view onwhat it means to be manly and what manliness is. Eddie, the maincharacter around which the play revolves, has a very specific view ofwhat manliness exactly is. When other characters views clash with hisown ideals, he reacts, violently in most cases. another(prenominal) character,Marco, demonstrates masculine characteristics and makes Eddie feelthreatened, these connect the ideas of manliness, hostility andaggression. I will look at this particular area, and others later inthe essay .The play, itself, is set in the rose-cheeked Hook, slum area area of Brooklyn, NewYork during the 1950s. It focuses around the immigration of Italianpeople, searching for the American Dream, however many if thesedreams were shattered with the tragedy and poverty that befell thepeople of that area. The area of Red Hook is also renowned for itsinfamous gangsters such as Al Capone, John Torrio and Frankie Yale.Another character in the play, Alfieri, plays a similar part to achorus, similar to ones in Greek plays, narrating the play andcommenting on events he also plays a part in the play as a lawyer anda family friend. He is essential to the structure of the play as heopens and closes it and at other times moves th... ...get it, Catherine. Women in this era, were forced intothese roles, they had few rights and were treated poorly.I opine that the play is healthy written and it was a success. Theauthor had spent a number of years in these conditions and knew whatit felt like for t hese people. The characters in the play were wellformed and each person was totally independent from the others.However at the end of the play, just before Marco stabs Eddie, thereis little suspension, leaving much to be desired for the ending. Theplay does also relate to many of todays issues. People are stillquite homophobic (however homosexuals are becoming more and more compound into todays society) and due to large amounts ofimmigrants coming into the country people of Britain are becoming morexenophobic towards those societies. Much in the same way as the eraEddie lived in.