Imagine you are Arthur miller Essay

This may be because they lack the language to express themselves fully or because they do not want to put their ideas into words. Eddie and Beatrices relationship is deteriorating because Eddie is jealous of Rodolfo. Beatrice is awargon of a deeper, to a greater extent disturbing priming coat for Eddies protectiveness for Catherine. It soon becomes clear that she is unhappy about Eddies attitude to his niece and she is up to(p) to persuade him to throw in the towel Catherine to start work when she lead offs offered one. Beatrice repeats the words What do you want from me? over again.When am I going to be a wife again, Eddie? She wants to know if he still loves her because they havent talked or had any carnal or sexual relationships which means that part of their relationship with each other has broken down, and despite thought-provoking Eddie over this, Beatrice is unable to make him face why this might be, let alone make him swallow his weakness to himself, as a result of t his she re chief(prenominal)s powerless to help him. Beatrice realized she had to tell Eddie that he wants somethin else, Eddie, and you can never have her This key dialogue within the play not only causes Catherine and Eddies relationship to deteriorate, but because Eddie will not allow her to try to achieve adult hood he is possessive and controlling. It is this urge to protect Catherine, to keep her from discovering her independence, that makes him particularly sensitive to the presence of Marco and especially Rodolfo, to whom Catherine becomes attr dissembleed. Catherine sometimes sits on the edge of the bath, in her underwear, talking to Eddie epoch he shaves.This shows how close they once were but also hints at the inappropriate crossing of boundaries, that leads to the eventual break up in their relationship. But, Catherine finding work, her growing attr secondion towards Rodolfo, which leads to their be after marriage, brings out an increasingly aggressive reaction in Eddi e that starts to break the family apart. Eddie is suspicious of Rodolfos interest in Catherine, believing that he seeks to marry her in order to gain the American Citizenship. It becomes clear to Catherine that Rodolfos intentions towards her ar motivated by his love for her.Eddies dislike not to be Catherines affections, as intimately as his desire for her, which forces him to talk with Alfieri for advice and which, even after Alfieri has told him to let events follow their natural course. This pushes Eddie to betray Eddie and Rodolfo. At the end, Catherine says Rat in the sewer and is always shouting which shows how much their relationship has disappeared. She becomes more rebellious and self-governing and Beatrice becomes increasingly frustrated as she realizes how the events will go.Eddies aggression towards Rodolfo is shown in the boxing scenes. Eddies main problems with Rodolfo are that he cooks he sings hes blonde he sews he dances and seems to be extremely feminine overa ll. To Eddie all the talents that Rodolfo is showing, points to only one thing in his eyes hes gay. most(prenominal) of the time Eddie doesnt know all the facts and jumps to conclusions, he refuses to see sense his eyes were like tunnels. Eddie cannot be persuaded otherwise, he is self centred and doesnt care whose feelings he hurts as long as he proves his point.Eddie and Rodolfo are completely different. Physically Eddie has brown hair, quite well built, straightforward and simple where as Rodolfo has blonde hair, lighthearted, entire looking and light on his feet their language, even though English is Rodolfos second language, he is able to express himself more passionately and imaginatively then Eddie. Rodolfo and Eddies attitudes differ because of the generation gap and Eddie has more experience about things, hes older and wiser.Rodolfo asks a lot of questions about things and wants to get a job, buy a motorcycle, and have dreams and fantasies of his future life. Marco and hi s structure, in comparison to Eddie, is similar in the fact that they both show signs of bulk and muscle and both enjoy to work hard for their family. That is why they got along in the beginning. Their interaction with each other clearly shows that Eddie preferred talking to Marco rather than Rodolfo. At the end of act 1, Marco gives Eddie a physical threat with the chair raised like a weapon over Eddies head.Marco shows Eddie how to lift the chair and Eddie tries but fails again and again. Marco tried to scare Eddie but he has to get the message first. Marco lifts the chair over his head and gives Eddie a glare of warning and triumph. Eddies grin disappears as he finally gets the message. At the end of act 5 shows just how far Eddie was determined to go to try and get his name back from Marco. Eddie gets killed by Marco because he turned both Marco and Rodolfo into the Immigration Bureau.This act of betrayal on members of his own extended family allows the tragedy, which Alfieri fo resaw at the beginning and he knew he wouldnt be able to prevent these things happening. Though despite Alfieris best efforts, Marco is set upon getting revenge for his betrayal, while Eddie is determined to maintain his reputation and honour. Eddie felt that the only way he could get his respect from the mickle back was to try and kill Marco. They finally come face to face in view of the region and the unpreventable tragedy happens.Marco was stronger and it was Eddies own knife and arrogance that killed him. This scene is where Catherine and Beatrice admit that they really do care for Eddie. Thank you for writing to me Albert, I hope my advice aids your performance in the play. Yours sincerely, Show trailer only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of galore(postnominal) that can be found in our GCSE Arthur Miller section.