Eddie carbone as a tragic hero
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"To what extent is Eddie Carbone a tragic hero?" is what I am going to base my analysis of tragedy. Firstly to complete my analysis I have to know what a tragedy is. A tragedy within a play script is drama with an unhappy ending but not necessarily death. Without any reference to the play, a tragedy can be a sad event, calamity, serious accident or crime. "A View from the Bridge" is a tragedy because Eddie Carbone (the tragic hero) has both a serious accident and commits a crime of betrayal. His crime/betrayal is both toward his family and the community he lives in.
The "A View for the Bridge" is set in an Italian American society when the immigration law was very strong. But during the time this play was written and preformed immigration in America was vastly growing bigger. The best tragic plot, he concludes, moves the hero from prosperity to misfortune, occasioned not by depravity, but by some great mistake he makes...