Passion as a Governing Factor in Eddie Carbon’s Death in Arthur Miller’sA View From the Bridge
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Eddie Carbone is protective and helpfulin the beginningto his relatives who
areItalian immigrantssuch asMarco and Rodolpho. In spite of his wife,Beatrice’s
warning time and again, Eddie pays much attention to Catherine, his niece andshows
Rodolpho and Marcoofviolating a code of behaviour with whichhe has previously
identified himself. Eddie, an ordinary longshoreman is unconsciously in love with his
niece--the daughter of his wife’s dead sister. Eddie does not understand why he
opposes the marriage between Catherine and Rodolpho violently, nor do any of the
other people who are involved. But Eddie’s real motive is the undeclared,
unrecognized, unappeased hunger he has for Catherine himself and he topples the
whole house down on himself in the catastrophic partof the play. Actually, Freudian
Idbestrides Eddie Carbon’s being. His violent attitude stems from the overridingof
his self by theIdpart of the mind.