Arthur Miller Explores the Idea of Justice in A View From The Bridge :: English Literature

How does Arthur Miller explore the idea of justice in A View From TheBridge.The play A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller is groom in theAmerican Sicilian community of Red Hook, in Brooklyn.Community bonds and strong codes of justice are very important in thecommunity. Betrayal of your family or your community is the worstcrime you can commit. For instance the story of Vinny Bolzano thatEddie told to Catherine and Beatrice.The story that Eddie told Catherine and Beatrice was the story ofVinny Bolzano. It was about a boy aged about fourteen years old whotold the police that his family were hiding his uncle, who was anillegal immigrant. When his family found out that it was Vinny who hadtold the police about the uncle they recanted him. The whole communityturned against him. They even kicked and beat him.grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him mess the stairs threeflights his head was bouncin like a coconut.Not betraying your family was so important to Eddie as you would bego ing against the community codes and this was not done. If it were,the community would disown you.Honour and reputation are also very important to the community. Eddiesays to CatherineYou can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a intelligence servicethat you gave away.Eddie is verbalize that once you have lost your reputation you give findit nearly impossible to get back.In the play the char personationer Alfieri role is to act as the narrator andto move the play along in time. He knows what will happen in the play.For instance he knows that Eddie Carbone will be killed at some pointwithin the play. He refers to this in his very first speech. Thisones name was Eddie Carbone and watched it run its bloody course.When reading or watching the play you will know that Eddie will bekilled some time within the play but you do not know when, thiscreates dramatic tension. So youll know that they rule be a happyending but youll be curious as to how the play will end.He al so makes lots of references to the law peculiarly in his firstspeech. a lawyer means the law the law has not been friendly. Thesecond quote comes from Alfieri in his first speech and he is sayingthat in the community Red Hook, where he works, a lawyer is thought ofas unlucky. This is because they are only connected with disaster.Because the community of Red Hook is a poor community and nobody has