Arthur Millar Essay

In this essay I am going to prove the melodramatic techniques that Arthur Millar uses in his 20th century drama called, A View From The Bridge. The play is set in Brooklyn in the 1940s when the Italians were immigrating to America to find work as they were poor and they needed to get onward from Italy to find work to feed their families in Italy. Many of these immigrants entered America Illegally. The play is about a ball-hawking docks worker in Brooklyn named Eddie Carbone. Eddie lives with his wife Beatrice and their niece, Catherine.Beatrices cousins named Marco and Rodolfo come to America from Italy to find work to feed Marcos family in Italy, as they are very poor. They plan to enter illegally. Eddie has feelings for his niece Catherine that he should not have. Meanwhile Catherine travel in love with Rodolfo and Eddie hates him because he is jealous as he loves her and he cannot stand any different man looking at her and touching her. As a result Eddie decides to let the Immigration role drive in that at that place are illegal immigrants in his building.In the play, Arthur Miller uses a number of dramatic devices many of which are seen in the first act but their significance only becomes apparent to the earreach in the second act. These dramatic devices are use of language, dialog and its sub textual cores, stage directions, characters actions, support and lighting. The first dramatic technique I am going to analyse is the use of language in Alfieris speech at the start of the play. Miller has put this at the start of the play to spend a penny the sense of hearing for what will happen later on in the play.The speech starts to develop tension because there are a lot of negative and violent words used. For example, Alfieri uses terms such as mould Gun. The effect of using a term like this is to create tension for the audience, as they now know that something bad is going to happen later on in the play. As the play progresses the audience g ive that this is the only time when Alfieri uses negative and violent language. So his words take on a deeper meaning when the audience realises this. I am now going to look at Eddies language in the first act.His speech is simple but at the start of the play his words are more vibrant towards Catherine as he tells he that she is walking wavy. At the same time he excessively refers to her as a Madonna. This gives the audience the idea that she is pure and she is a virgin and Eddie wants her to stay as she is. Listen, B. , shell be with a lot of plumbers? And sailors up and down the street? This illustrates Eddies feelings for Catherine and it can also mean that he does not want any other men looking at Catherine or marrying her.Eddies dialogue changes when the cousins arrive. He uses working class American colloquial words, such as Yiz have a keen trip? when he asks the cousins Marco and Rodolfo about their journey. Eddie wants to make it clear that he is the man of the hous e and that he is in charge. These expressions are only used in the first act when he is speaking to Marco and Rodolfo. This builds tension because the audience know that Eddie is going to start trouble with Marco and Rodolfo later on.