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However, Alfieri being a lawyer is associated with disasters,.
"In this neighbourhood to meet a lawyer or a priest on the street is.
Unlucky. We"re only thought of in connexion with disasters, and they"d.
Rather not get too close".
Miller uses a lawyer as the chorus to symbolise disaster, Alfieri is involved with Eddie Carbone who is going down a one way street- heading toward disastrous consequences.
One of the techniques Miller uses is foreshadowing, although we are told of Eddie Carbones fate it doesn't necessarily ruin the out come, it creates suspense throughout the drama.
At the beginning of the play Alfieri says.
"This ones name was Eddie Carbone".
This indicates that Eddie is dead and the audience suddenly become intrigued to the prospect of eddies death. This is a quality that makes the play successful as before the play has even started we are told the main character is dead, creating drama and anxiety as to the happenings of the dramatic ending of the play.
When the play was first drafted Alfieri's lines were set out in poetic verse. His speeches are spoken with passion and deep emotion. It is very moving and powerful, as though you can feel what is happening when you hear Alfieri talk. This is another successful technique of the play, Alfieri's words move us emotionally, the language and poetic form used is passionate and intense making the audience become intrigued and overwhelmed with Alfieri's rhetoric speech.
The last few lines of the play, Alfieri says.
" But the truth is holy and even as I know how wrong he was,.
And is death useless, I tremble, for I confess that something.
Perversely pure calls to me from his memory-.
This speech fills the audience with compassion for Eddie, which in my opinion, no one feels until hearing the "words of wisdom" from Alfieri. Alfieri's speeches in the play are one of the qualities that make this a successful drama.
Another quality that Miller uses to make this play successful is the construction of the set.
