'How does Arthur Miller use actions alongside dialogue to create atmosphere?'

... Vaneeta Loomba 11T2 Year 10 coursework Post 1914 drama 'How does Arthur Miller use actions alongside dialogue to create atmosphere?' A View from the Bridge originated in the late 1940s, when Miller became attached to the suspenseful lives of dockworkers and longshoremen of New York's Brooklyn harbour, where this play was set. To Miller this formed an image of 'a dangerous and mysterious world at the water's edge that drama and literature had never touched.' This gave Arthur Miller the background of his play, which was to become 'A View from the Bridge'. He used his experiences of Italian immigrants and combined it with the true story of a longshoreman (Eddie Carbone), who revealed all to the immigration bureau, on his two relatives (Marco and Rodolfo) who were living illegally in his home, in order to break up a marriage that he disapproved of. Arthur Miller has used various actions alongside dialogue, to create

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