Essay on Examining Alfieris Role in a View From a Bridge

Examining Alfieris Role in a View From a Bridge Alfieri was born in Italy. He is in his fifties. He is good humoured and thoughtful. He is a family lawyer sorting out family difficulties. He introduces the play and acts as a character. He is the narrator that is watching the action on stage. Alfieri is probably the most important role after Eddie. One of the most important roles of Alfieri is that he is the narrator of this play. He tells the story. He gives us hints into what is going to happen in the following scenes. He introduces the play and all the new scenes. He also usually ends the scene and he finishes the play. This next quotation is an example of Alfieri introducing Act Two.†¦show more content†¦Alfieri helps us to understand the play, he comments on the action in the previous scene and gives his views and he also gives a hint into what is going to happen in the next scene. When Alfieri speaks at the end of every scene, this help us to understand and break the play down into small chunks so that audience has more time to take in what has just happened. The audience has more time to stop and think and create their own opinions about what has just happened in the previous scene. Alfieri start and finishes the play , he brings the play to a tidy end, making the audience understand it better, because if the play had just ended when Eddie was killed then the audience would have thought that an unsatisfactory ending and that may have caused confusion with some members of the audience. Alfieri explains the actions of the characters. For example when Eddie comes to see Alfieri, he explains why Eddie comes to talk to him. I had represented his father in an accident case some years before, and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way.Show MoreRelatedA View from the Bridge: Story of a Brooklyn Longshoreman6101 Words   |  25 PagesMiller first heard the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman that would become the basis for his play, A View from the Bridge in 1947. He would not write it until 1955, when it was produced on Broadway as a simple, unadorned one-act. Miller would then develop and expand it into a full-length production with director Peter Brook in London in 1956. The incubation period of A View from the Bridge, spanning from 1947 to 1956, straddles and absorbs a host of major events both on the national landscape and in