A View From the Bridge - study topics

1. Similarities and differences between Eddie and Marco.
2. Roldolfo's growth from callow immaturity to maturity.
3. The life of the community. Working class Red Hook. Italian immigrants. The "code" of the neighborhood.
4. Catherine's complicity and her ambiguous behavior in the relationship with Eddie.
5. Beatrice knows.
6. Alferi as the Greek chorus: the bridge between worlds--between the codes of the community and the law of the land, between the old world and the new, between Marco and Eddie, between the play and the audience.
7. The play as a kind of modern Greek tragedy: fall of the hero, inevitability, the protagonist's death restores the community, the role of the chorus.
8. Justice versus the law. (or Revenge versus the law, later suggested by Walpole)
9. Eddie: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
10. The dramatist's tools: the stage set, the stage directions, diction of the characters, actions, conflict, soliloquy, dialogue, contrasts, foreshadowing, complications of plot, shift of tones between scenes (turning the emotional temperature of the scene up and down).

Walpole said that this play has only been used twice thus far on the AICE exams and they covered topic #3 and #6. He said to review those anyway because it might good to refer to them if they come up in the extracts. I also have to give you a packet about the play, it's really good. But you're not allowed to write on it, okeedokee? Well... I hope this helped! °-ttfn.