A view from the bridge - context
- Created by: abis
- Created on: 01-04-14 20:29
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- A View From the Bridge
- 1955
- Lack of work and money after the war
- Especially
- Jobs in car factories made for Italy
- Marco and Rodolpho too late to get jobs in car factories so tried their luck in America
- Lack of work and money after the war
- Italian immigration bigger than ever
- Payed captains to allow them to travel on boats and smuggled into the country as illegal immigrants
- Cheap labour for shipyard owners
- Ethnic Definition in towns
- Eddie, Beatrice and Catherine live in a poor Italian area
- Culture
- Kin and village based migration chains lead to the formation of 'Little Italy's"
- Italian culture takes family very seriously and always puts them first, there is a huge sense of responsibility to look after kin
- Women's role
- Women had more rights after the war
- They were accepted as workers and not just housewives, this is shown in the contrast of generations of Beatrice and Catherine
- Women had more rights after the war
- Justice and Law
- In the times of mobs and gangsters, there was street justice and the law. They were very different things
- e.g. Alfieri speaks of men being 'cut in half' by machine guns
- 'Justly shot by unjust men'
- Respect and honor meant everything and even the law couldn't stop people from attempting to get it back, no matter the cost
- In the times of mobs and gangsters, there was street justice and the law. They were very different things
- 1955
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