Explore how the theme of love is portrayed in “A view from the bridge”.

Love—of one kind or another—is the major motivator of Miller’s characters in this play, and drives the main events of its plot. Catherine’s adore for Rodolfo and Eddie’s intense enjoy for Catherine lead to the central difficulties of the play. But even before this, it is Marco’s really like for his loved ones that motivates him to come to America, and it is Beatrice’s adore for her extended loved ones that causes her to have Marco and Rodolfo stay in her house.

Beyond this, though, A View from the Bridge particularly explores the way in which men and women are driven by desires that don’t match the mold of regular or classic forms of familial and romantic love. For one thing, Eddie’s enjoy for Catherine is intense and hard to define precisely. He is conspicuously overprotective, and however he is supposed to be a father figure for her.

Sadly, as Beatrice subtly hints several occasions, his adore for Catherine often crosses this line and becomes a sort of incestuous desire for his niece, whom he has raised like a daughter. This repressed taboo desire—which Eddie vehemently denies—erupts to the surface when Eddie grabs Catherine and kisses her in front of Rodolfo.

Eddie might also have other repressed desires. Directly right after kissing Catherine, he kisses Rodolfo, as nicely. He claims that this is to prove that Rodolfo is homosexual (an accusation he continually implies but in no way says outright), but as he is the 1 to restrain Rodolfo and forcefully kiss him, his motivations are dubious.

All through the play, Eddie is disproportionately obsessed with proving that Rodolfo “ain’t right”, and this fixation on Rodolfo’s sexuality (combined with the fact that he does not have sex with his wife Beatrice) may recommend that there are other motivations behind Eddie’s kissing him.

Eddie is a mess of contradictory, half-repressed desires that are difficult to pin down or define, possibly even for him. By means of this tragically tormented and conflicted character, Miller shows that individuals are usually not conscious of their own desires, and reveals the energy that these desires can exert over men and women. Eddie’s suffocating adore for Catherine becomes a wish to possess her. He even claims that Rodolfo is ‘stealing’ from him, as if she were an object he owned.

His obsession with Catherine drives him apart from his loved ones and leads him to betray Beatrice’s cousins, thereby efficiently ostracizing himself from his close friends and neighbors. Through the tragic descent of Eddie, A View from the Bridge can be noticed not only as the drama of a family, or of an immigrant neighborhood, but also as the internal drama of Eddie’s psyche, as he is tormented and brought down by desires he himself doesn’t even fully understand.

In contrast with his obsession for Catherine, Eddie’s adore for Beatrice has hit the rocks. Ironically, Catherine is his ‘daughter’ while Beatrice is his wife. At the beginning of the play there appears to be no evidence of tension in the marriage in between Beatrice and Eddie. Beatrice is complete of praise for her husband whom she compares to “an angel”. At the same time Eddie expresses his appreciation for his wife whom she believes has got “too massive a heart”. Nonetheless, the audience can see from the starting that Eddie is nervous about Catherine getting her independence. This began considerably earlier and Beatrice has notice the change in her husband’s affection for her. In reality, there has been no physical relationship amongst them for “three months”. It appears as if the coming of the cousins and Catherine’s clear falling in adore with Rodolfo is what brings about the total break-down of the husband and wife connection. This is a lot more so since the wife keeps accusing the husband but the husband keeps denying. Arthur Miller has shown how inability to reject an individual’s desires can lead to a breakup of correct enjoy.

As opposed to the husband wife adore of Beatrice and Eddie which breaks down, Marco’s really like for his wife and kids undergoes many trials but does not break down. Marco is a quite powerful man both physically and mentally. Nevertheless, the only moment we see him virtually breaking down emotionally is when the concern of enjoy for loved ones comes to the surface. The moment he arrives in the United States from Italy, the initial point he desires to do is to send his wife and young children cash, “he is close to tears”. His really like is constant and he has a lot of faith in his wife “No-no … the wemen wait, Eddie”. The same emotion can be observed when he is talking about Eddie’s humiliation of Rodolfo “he degraded my brother. My blood. He robbed my children, he mocks my work”. Marco remains correct to the folks he loves.

Against the household really like of Marco is the romantic adore in between Rodolfo and Catherine. This love is also shown to with stand numerous trials. The largest obstacle to this really like is Eddie. At the starting, Eddie has moral authority more than Catherine _following all he is the ‘father’ that is why Catherine is prepared to listen to him complaining about Rodolfo. Because she is like a daughter to him, she believes what he says and does not like to see him hurt. Nonetheless, Eddie tends to make a single nasty accusation after an additional against Rodolfo. He says “the boy desires his passport”, the boy is a homosexual and so on and so forth. In spite of all this, Catherine’s really like for Rodolfo grows, just as her contempt for Eddie increases until, by the finish of the play she refers to him as “a rat! He belongs to the sewer!”

Arthur miller has shown love to be a wonderful motivation of the characters in his play. This can be motivation for great, as in the case for Rodolfo and Marco and it can also be motivation for purely selfish interest as is in the case of Eddie. In the end, adore destroys itself when it is corrupted by inappropriate physical wish. But love triumphs when it is effectively meant.