Arthur Miller ‘Good’ Theatre Essay

A look out from the twosome is a post war play centred on longshoreman Eddie Carbonne. Eddie lives with wife Beatrice, and niece Catherine. The play depicts the conflict that occurs when, Italian immigrants and relatives of Beatrice, Marco and Rudolpho, come to stay with them and Rudolpho forms a romantic relationship with Catherine, eventually marrying her. It ends in a violent opponent between Marco and Eddie. Eddie confronts Marco with a knife, but it backfires and he is stabbed to death.I am going to answer the question, what makes A View from the Bridge good theatre by firstly analysing four main components the fictional characters, themes, stage directions and dramatic devices. I am going to begin with the characters. The three most important characters are Eddie, Beatrice and Alfieri. Firstly, Eddie has the leading role and the complexities of his character add many intriguing dimensions. For instance, there are his deep feelings for Catherine and their incestuous connota tions. Throughout the play, Eddies feelings towards Catherine are made known to the audience and many of the other characters.However Eddie still seems oblivious and even though his actions strongly suggest he loves her as much than a niece, he never verbalises his feelings or wilfully admits to them. EDDIE What can I do? I gotta sit in my own house and look at a son-of-a-bitch punk worry that which he came out of nowhere I give him my house to catnap I take the blankets off my bed for him, and he takes and puts his dirty filthy hands on her like a god dam thief Here, Eddie is getting increasingly provoked, because he feels that by marrying Catherine, Rudolpho is somehow take from him. Miller shows this by using expletives and exclamation marks.This shows that he is protective of her in a slightly more than paternal way. When Alfieri makes the comment about Eddie marrying Catherine, it is on the surface an offhand retort to ridicule Eddies distrust at Catherine marrying Rudo lpho, but Eddie reacts very badly to it, because Alfieri has actually pinpointed the true nature of his feelings. However instead of acknowledging this, he shouts at Alfieri in an attempt. Here, the audience is made aware of the fact that in his own mind, Eddie is just existence protective of his niece, and that any improper feelings from Catherine are deeply suppressed.Therefore, the audience is always in anticipation of the effect when Eddie vents all that suppressed emotion, which creates increasing tension. Miller puts a pause at the end of Eddies angry outburst because the moment of silence would allow the audience to realise the true meaning of the conversation. ALFIERI You know sometimes God mixes up the people. We all love someone but sometimes theres in addition much and it goes where it mustnt there is too much love for the niece. Do you understand what Im saying to you?