Alfieri Tells the Audience ‘Justice Is Very Important Here’. How Does Arthur Miller Show the Importance of Justice in the Play? Essay

After Eddie hits Rodolfo the audience gets the feeling that he feels this is justice for Rodolfo leading Catherine away from the life Eddie wanted her to have. This is emphasised by Eddies use of the war cry Danish to describe Rodolfo. By using this as a nickname Miller is trying to access the point that Eddie is trying to isolate Rodolfo from the Italian association and also their family. The true sense of justice in this scene however, comes from Marco who raises the chair over his head.This is a clear sense of warning implied by Marco, which is clear registered by Eddie, Eddies grin vanished. This, to Marco, is a feeling of justice coming to Eddie for trying to make either him of his brother feel like they dont belong. turn also foreshadowing what will happen at the end of Act 2. Miller highlights justice as one of the most important things in Eddies life. However, he leads the audience to enquire whether Eddies desires are truly just. What Eddie wants is his honour and his n ame but also Catherine. Marcos got my name. He also wants his respect jeopardize from Marco, which he has completely lost by the actions his inappropriate feelings for Catherine have caused him to take. In the structure of a Greek tragedy that Miller is trying to create Eddie plays the protagonist. It is his action between his good qualitys and the gradually rise of his bad ones that force the drama forwards with both Eddie and Marcos need for justice. The importance of justice shown in the play comes to a drama filled end with Marco finally getting the justice he believes he deserves.The end of this play was foreshadowed when Marco stated, all the law is non in a book. By saying this Miller has implied to the audience that Marco believes it is his duty to bring Eddies life to an end, in my country he would be asleep(predicate) by now. He also brings in the claim felt by Marco of natural justice and how by disregarding the respect Marco feels for Rodolfo, my brother, my blood, Eddie has lead himself in to the position where he is nothing more than an animal who deserves to die.In conclusion, throughout the play Miller implies the theme of justice as the most prominent and important theme of the play. It is one of the only things Marco and Eddie have in common, in the way that they both search for it and in the end it finished with Eddie dead and Marco being sent abide to Italy. In the final scene Miller shows the audience that though you may gain the justice you sought out for like Marco, Eddie falls to his knees before Marco, it may be the thing that leads to a characters downfall, in which it did with both Eddie and Marco at the end of this play.