Question
How does Miller use Alfieri in A View from the Bridge? (30 marks)
Mark scheme guidance:
- Alfieri as Chorus: narrates inevitability; steps outside events to comment on them.
- Half-Italian, half-American — embodies the tension between the two justice codes.
- His inability to prevent — he advises Eddie; Eddie ignores him; Alfieri watches, helpless.
- Opening monologue: "a lawyer means the law, and in this neighbourhood to meet a lawyer means disaster." Positions Red Hook outside formal law.
- Closing speech: admires Eddie's "furious head of love" — complex moral response to a destroyed man.
- Context: Greek Chorus tradition (Aeschylus, Sophocles); Miller's classical education.
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