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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the methodology in this study. There are three subtitles in this chapter: object of the study, in which the information on the novel is presented, the approach of the study, discussion on the approaches in this study, and method of the study, which tells about the procedure of gathering and arranging the data used in writing this thesis.

A. Object of the study

In this part the writer wants to describe everything which is relevant to the object of the study. The object of this study is a drama. This play is entitled A View from the Bridge written by Arthur Miller. It was written in 1955 and published by The Viking Press, Inc. This play received the Gold Medal Award for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1955. The book that the writer used was published in 1960 by Bantam Books, Inc. It was an extended version with the introduction of Arthur Miller. It is a play with two acts. A View from the Bridge is the work that is going to be used as the object of this study. This play was written by Arthur Miller in 1955 and was first staged in 1956. Miller wrote this play based on his experience when he worked in Brooklyn neighborhoods. The play focuses on a doom-ridden family and the community in front of which that household all-too-publicly disintegrates. In this case, the family is the working-class-Italian Carbone in the community of Red Hook, Brooklyn, 1955. The issue is the emerging sexuality of the Carbones niece, Catherine, who has begin to wear high heels and to walk wavy. Guardian Uncle Eddies all-consuming adoration for his niece evolves into a lusty force stronger than all the wise counsels, desperate pleas, and bad omens in the world. http:www.austinchronicle.comgyrobaseIssuereview. ―A View from the Bridge has an unusually complicated performance history. Inspired now by the true story of a Brooklyn dockworker who informed on two illegal immigrants, Miller reconceived The Hook as A View from the Bridge. The play, a one-act verse drama, was a mild failure on Broadway in 1955; critics found its austere style un-involving. Miller had wanted to create a play that would simply tell the tale he himself has heard, with no attempt to gain audience sympathy for Eddies - or anyone elses – plight‖ http:www.eriding.netamooregcseviewfromthebridge.htmhistory. Based on the quotation above, A View from the Bridge is a typed of Greek tragedy with its tragic hero of Italian-American longshoreman Eddie Carbone, whose intransigence proves his downfall. The mind of Eddie Carbone is not comprehensible apart from its relation to his neighborhood, his fellow workers, and his social situation. His self-esteem depends upon their estimate of him, and his value is created largely by the fidelity to the code of his culture. His downfall arises because of his own action as he reports his cousins to the Immigration Bureau, due to his jealousy of the relationship between Catherine his niece and Rodolpho Beatrice‘s cousin.

B. Approach of the Study