Thursday, March 21, 2019
How does Miller create dramatic tension between Marco and Eddie at the
How does Miller create dramatic tensity between Marco and Eddie at the balance of Act One?So far in the play Marco and Rodolfo start out illeg wholey immigrated toAmerica, seeking shelter with their cousin Beatrice and her husbandEddie. Living with them is Catherine, their niece, who move head overheels in love with Rodolfo. Eddie is not happy, as he is incrediblyoverprotective of Catherine. This overprotectiveness turns tojealousy, which turns into an obsession. At the end of Act One allfive characters are in the living room, sharing a comfortable after dinnerchat.At this point of A View From The duad Eddie is feeling intenselyjealous of Rodolfo and he doesnt really understand why. He talks toAlfieri about it, yet Alfieri seems to immediately understand what is passage on and just before this scene hints at the bloody resultant role ofthis tale. Marco, too, recognizes Eddies feelings for Catherine,though he appears to be the only wiz in the family who sees it.The premonition in Alfieris soliloquy make the audience think. Itmakes them drive question like whos breathing out to die? How are they going todie? Why are they going to die? The audience demand to know the answersto all of these questions right at the beginning of the play and pass onstart to guess what will happen, yet they have to pay aid tounderstand what is going on and make predictions.The personalities of the characters greatly affect the tension of thispart of the play. For example, if Marco were not so silent and still,his threat would not be so obvious. When he takes a chair, places itin front of Eddie, and looks down at it it is a contrast to hisnatural behaviour. Eddie, however, still does not ingest it, as hebelieves that the worl... ...gland, for example, where the sense of community is muchless, the dramatic tension would not exist. In fact the situationwould probably not have arisen at all. Catherine would have had morefreedom, Eddie and Beatrice would have attended marriage counsellingand close to likely Marco and Rodolfo could have immigrated legally. Theplay would be quite boring.In conclusion, umteen things contribute to the tension at the end of ActOne. It would be well-nigh impossible to have the same sort of tension ifjust one aspect of the play was changed. The tension would probablyremain but it would be utterly different. It could be more or lesseffective than the personal manner it is now, but I feel it would be more likelythat a master playwright like Arthur Miller would understand what hewas doing, and would get word and make the play as dramatic as he could, toget his point across.
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