Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A View From The Bridge
- conflict between American law and Italian justice
- Inadequacy of the
law
- No law to stop an immigrant
marrying an American, even if
just for citizenship
- "You mean to tell me that
there's no law that a guy which
he ain't right can go to work and
marry a girl and -?"
- No law to punish a man who
snitched on his own family,
killing children
- "There is no law for that? Where is the law for that?
- Importance of
revenge
- Justice must be carried out, even
if it is against the law
- "In my country he would be dead by now"
- Settling for
half
- Alfieri wants people to settle,
even if they do not feel satisfied
by the justice law can bring
- "If he obeys the law, he lives. That's
all."
- Alfieri's opening speech
- Establishes how Italians don't like the
law
- "in Sicily, from where their fathers came, the law has not
been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten"
- Establishes how the law is not perfect but should be followed
- "Now we settle for half, and I like it
better"