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A Greek tragic hero, moves from contentment and happiness to disaster often self-destruction, in which Eddie takes his own life with his own knife is the symbolic of the self-destruction, which led to such on ending. The hero is just on ordinary person with their own weakness which leads them to an error of judgement and also the audience know the outcome, however the psychological process is what has the audience attention.
Eddie Carbone is the main central character of the play ‘A view from the Bridge’. ... Then tension starts to rise when Beatrice, Eddie’s wife, two cousins Marco and Rodolpho came to live from Italy as ‘Submarines’ then everything got out of hand. ... Eddie saw Rodolpho as a threat that he was going to take Catherine from him; so Eddie thought he had to take revenge on Rodolpho. ...
Eddie can be seen a modern tragic hero in many different ways. First as a character as villainous nor exceptionally. ...
Perhaps Eddie most resembles a tragic hero main character weakness. ...
For example we see from Eddie’s actions and the way he talks to Catherine that he has some secret for her. ... It is urge that Eddie has to protect Catherine, to keep her from discovering her independence. ... ”
In this extract, we see how Eddie insists Catherine to finish school, because in his mind he knows that going to and from work every day she will meet new people, and Eddie is scared he will lose her. Also from the extract is another example of Eddie expected Catherine to ask permission to get a job. ... The play then plummets into the arrival of Beatrice’s two cousins from Italy who are illegal immigrants. ... Eddie becomes infatuated to stop Catherine from going out with Rodolpho. ... Eddie saw Rodolpho as a threat that he was going to take Catherine from him; so Eddie thought he had to take revenge on Rodolpho. ... The third, and final movement comes from Marco, who invites Eddie to lift a chair by one of its legs. ... This is the point where Eddie makes an error in judgement that will separate him from his family and his community and end in his death. Eddie returns home from work drunk, to find Catherine and Rodolpho together. ... Again, this is ironic because it distance Catherine further from him. ... Four-forty one Saxton Street, Brooklyn, yeah. ... From Eddie’s Sicilian background, he believes that the man should be the man of the house, the head of the family, whatever he says, is right. For example Eddie demands respect from Beatrice and not go to Catharine’s wedding. ...
However Eddie was not solely responsible for his downfall and in this sense he is not truly a modern tragic hero. ... Rodolpho could have stopped this tragic happening by asking Eddie’s permission if he could go out with Catherine, and also both of them meeting up in the bedroom, which adds to the tension.
Approximate Word count = 2464
Approximate Pages = 9.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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