Riddled with themes and motifs, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is an exquisite play that has been influenced by the lives of everyday people. Williams employs key features from human relationships in order to formulate this classic play. Family is a key aspect of both the play and our lives. The central conflict is between the family members over Big Daddy’s will. In this play, their family is put under a highly negative light, especially with Brick neglecting his own identity and the resentment of other

A View From The Bridge is a play composed by dramatist Arthur Miller set in the 1950s in Brooklyn. It looks at the numerous topics of affection, womanliness, equity, codes of respect, codes of law and some more. A View from the Bridge recounts the account of Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman, whose forbidden love for his niece, Catherine, drives him to his own lamentable faith.The connection amongst Eddie and Catherine is an intriguing one as Eddie 's inspiration towards his activities with her appears

Arthur Miller wrote the play, “A View from the Bridge’’, as a modern version of a Greek Tragedy. Traditionally, a character is led by fate to a destiny which cannot be escaped. He introduces Eddie as the hero of the play but establishes him as an ‘ordinary’ man, just as he lays out in his essay ‘Tragedy and the Common Man’. Alfieri acts as a chorus. He can only watch the tragedy unfold. In his first speech, Alfieri identifies the play’s ‘’bloody’’ outcome. The audience shares Alfieri’s perspective:

In ‘A View from the Bridge’, Arthur Miller examines the ideas of manliness, hostility and aggression. Eddie, the main protagonist has a very peculiar view of what it means to be a “real man”. Eddie is prejudiced, sometimes even spiteful towards those who do not conform to it. Threats to his honour or ideal image of masculinity, in the form of malice and aggressiveness are the cause many tense disagreements throughout the play. Manliness, as well as hostility and aggression are integral in the unfolding

Explore the ways in which Miller presents women in ‘A View from the Bridge’ A view from the Bridge by Arthur Miller is a modern tragedy set in Brooklyn around the 1950s. The play centres around Italian immigrants and American values and way of life, focusing mainly on Eddie Carbone and his family and in particular his relationship with Catherine. Whilst Miller presents women as having stereotypical supporting roles, which was rather typical in the era set in as women were perceived as the weaker

How does Miller explore the theme of Betrayal in ‘A View from the Bridge’? Betrayal is an extremely important theme in Arthur Millers 1950’s play ‘A View from the Bridge’. The setting and community of the play, play a vital role in showing this themes significance; with the Italian American Red Hook community underpinned by the law of Omertà, a code that dictates silence and forbade people from cooperating with authorities, an extremely obvious portrayal of how betrayal is loathed within the community

many War veterans and they start to hallucinate. While they were trying to escape the commander got out of the escape vehicle to unlock a fence when a bomb blew up. Since Eddie had just been shot you did not remember his comander's death. The lesson from the second person was

development of reputation, Arthur Miller’s A View from a Bridge explores the ideas of masculinity. Miller does this by using different characters to portray different sides of masculinity. Eddie and Marco are portrayed as the right way to be a man, whereas Rodolpho plays the softer, kinder side to masculinity. The ideal man, as portrayed in the play, is to be strong, independent and to provide income for your family, as Eddie and Marco do. Throughout A View from a Bridge, Miller uses traditional and modern