ARTHUR MILLER: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

Acknowledged, along with Tennessee Williams, as one of the two greatest dramatists of the post-World War II era, Arthur Miller synthesizes elements from social and psychological realism to depict the individual’s search for identity within a society that inhibits such endeavours. A View from the Bridge is set in the 1930s America, in an Italian neighbourhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It has striking similarities with a Greek tragedy, being linear and having a chorus/narrator (Alfieri). Eddie Carbone, the protagonist, has a fatal flaw (his unnatural, somewhat incestuous) obsession with his niece Catherine) that leads to his down fall. Like the heroes of Greek tragedy, he topples the whole house down on himself in the final catastrophe of this haunted play. The present critical study explores and examines the play primarily from the perspective of students in Indian universities and abroad. Shakti Batra, Formerly Vice-Principal of Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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