Use of language in A View from the Bridge
The device for depicting Italian and Sicilian immigrants enables miller to make them more or less articulate in English. Only Alfieri is a properly articulate, educated speaker of American English: for this reason he can explain Eddie's actions to the audience, but not to Eddie, who does not really speak his language. Eddie uses a naturalistic Brooklyn slang "quicker" for "more quickly", "stole" for "stolen" and so on. His speech is simple, but at the start of the play is more colourful, as he tells Catherine she is "walkin wavy" and as he calls her "Madonna".Miller uses epigrammatical style in some of Alfieri's speeches. For example at the beginning of the play where Alfieri says: " A lawyer means the law, and in Sicily, from where their fathers came, the law has not been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten." Miller shows that Alfieri is well educated and that he has a full historical background of his ancestors and how they were treated before his time.All of Alfieri's speeches are soliloquy as h
His use of words and structure of sentences attracts people and he easily gains attention in the society which later on upsets and steers Eddie to eventually hate him. In my opinion, I think that a view from the bridge is a play which is based on an allegory. His quietness and they way in which he moves around situations signifies that he is considerate and a man of action rather than just words. The language used in conjunction with the themes he chose to work upon all signifies the same moral. The whole situation and the way Miller has focused on betrayal is an allegory for what happened to him during the McCarthy period. " This signifies to the audience how he feels towards his job that it is the total opposite to romantic and towards the law in particular. Most of us, says Alfieri, being more educated, more sophisticated, more in control, can either hide our feelings or, better, overcome them. The lights go down, as they rise on Alfieri. He sometimes recollects vibrant details of his life in Sicily, he is more accustomed to using poetic similarities like when he likens Catherine to a "little bird" that has not been allowed to fly. e disrupts the play at certain periods and enlightens the audience with the story himself. Catherine's submissiveness is often portrayed through her use of words such as: "yeah" and "oh sure", she agrees with Eddie's comments. Catherine and Beatrice's speeches are often in grammatical standard forms, but not always. Most of us, says Alfieri are "civilized", "American" rather than Sicilian.
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