In writing A View from the Bridge', Arthur Miller wanted to create a modern Greek tragedy. An Ancient Greek tragedy was a play where fate brings about the downfall of the characters involved. It has many other generic features which Miller has incorporated into his modern version. The character of Alfieri is used in the traditional chorus role, and Eddie is often likened to a tragic hero, the main character who contributes to their own downfall through a flawed personality, typically described as their "tragic flaw". The traditional Greek tragedies would have been performed in amphitheatres, in which the audience would look down on the actors. Not only is this similar to the way Alfieri looks down from the bridge, it is also similar to the way that Greek tragedies involved a strong sense of destiny controlled by the Gods, symbolised by the looking down. Miller uses the idea of destiny to great effect in A View from the Bridge'.
Miller has used the idea of inevitability about......
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