![]() ![]() We can infer from the original title of the play, An Italian Tragedy, what the “real and inner theme” of the play was. Miller set out to write a tragedy in A View from the Bridge he uses Alfieri to enforce the Aristotelian principles that constructed a Greek tragedy and applies them to this more modern drama. Alfieri is used as a vehicle to mediate the genre of the play, and Miller employs Alfieri to urge us to arrive at the intended conclusion that Eddie is a tragic figure. Therefore, throughout A View from the Bridge he utilises Alfieri as an “engaged narrator” and to express some of the key themes of the play – the tragic hero quality of Eddie, the bridge-like attribute that Alfieri adopts and the tension and conflict in the drama. ![]() Arthur Miller, the playwright, didn’t feel that his previous play, The Crucible was interpreted in the way he wanted. ![]()
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