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1
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Who is the Playwright

A

Arthur Miller

2
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When/Where was it published/performed

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1956, USA

3
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Where is it set?

A

Brooklyn, NY

4
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Show that Eddie is a good guy (QUOTES)

A

Pg 15
Alfieri:
“He was a good man as he had to be in a life that was hard and even. He worked on the piers when there was work, he brought home his pay, and he lived.”

  • this shows the noble and high position of Eddie (on morality, not status)
5
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Eddie’s anger for Catherine (QUOTES)

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Pg 23
Catherine offers Rodolpho sugar:

[EDDIE is downstage, watching as she pours a spoonful of sugar into his cup, his face puffed with trouble, and the room dies.]

  • demonstrates Eddie’s strong feelings for Catherine
  • Dislike of her relationship with Rodolpho
6
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Ending (where Eddie dies) (QUOTES)

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Pg 72

[Eddie lunges with a knife. Marco grabs his arm, turning the blade in word and pressing it home… Eddie, the knife still in his hand, falls to his knees before Marco.]

  • Eddie dies.
  • Beatrice is released
7
Q

Beatrice stays. (QUOTES)

A

Act 2

Eddie offers Beatrice an ultimatum
“You be on my side or on their side, that’s all”

Beatrice to Catherine:
“Now go, go to your wedding, Katie, I’ll stay home.”

*Beatrice chooses to stay with Eddie. She chooses to stay trapped.

8
Q

Inevitability, fate (QUOTES)

A

Act 1
when Eddie first tells Alfieri about his issues with Rodolpho`

Alfieri:
“I knew then and there - I could have finished the whole story that afternoon. It wasn’t as though there was a mystery to unravel. I could see every step coming, step after step, like a dark figure walking down a hall toward a certain door. I knew where he was heading for, I knew where he was going to end.”

*His fate is sealed. everyone knows how this will end

9
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Eddie’s vow for Catherine (QUOTES)

A

Act 1

Eddie
“Katie, I promised your mother on her deathbed. I’m responsible for you. You’re a baby, you don’t understand these things”

  • Honorable Eddie, upholding promises
  • Perception of Catherine as a baby?
10
Q

Eddie threatens, so Marco threatens back (QUOTES)

A

Act 1
End of act one. Eddie teaches Rodolpho boxing, and he punches him

“He could be very good Marco. I’ll teach him again”
[MARCO nods at him dubiously.]

  • Eddie threatens Rodolpho

FINAL End of Act one:
Marco then challenges Eddie to lift a chair with one hand. Eddie can’t do it. Marco does:

[MARCO is face to face with EDDIE, a strained tension gripping his eyes and jaw, his neck stiff, the chair raised like a weapon over EDDIE’s head - and he transforms what might appear like a glare of warning into a smile of triumph, and EDDIE’s grin vanishes as he absorbs his look.]

11
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Eddie has no legal right (QUOTES)

A

Act 2
Eddie talks to Alfieri about how Rodolpho marrying Catherine is wrong

Alfieri:
“Morally and Legally you have no rights, you cannot stop it; she is a free agent”

12
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The consequence of pursuing desire (QUOTES)

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Act 2
Alfieri tells Eddie to stop trying to condemn Rodolpho
“A river will drown you if you buck it now. Let her go.”

“You won’t have a friend in the world, Eddie! Even those who understand will turn against you, even the ones who feel the same will despise you!

13
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The law doesn’t work for Marco (QUOTES)

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Act 2
Marco is taken to prison b/c Eddie rats him out.

Marco: He degraded my brother. My blood. He robbed my children, he mocks my work. I work to come here, mister!

Alfieri: I know, Marco-

Marco: There is no law for that? Where is the law for that?

Alfieri: There is none.

*

14
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Description of Rodolpho

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Act 1
description of Rodolpho, by the longshoreman
Eddie to Beatrice:
“You know what they’re callin’ him now? Paper doll they’re callin’ him, Canary. He’s like a weird.”

“And with that wacky hair; he’s like a chorus girl or sump’m.”