A View from the Bridge Old Law/New Law By Laona, Chloe, Morven and Nicola

Old Law  The perception of the law in Italy

New Law  The perception of the law in America

Alfieri at the Beginning of the Play “A lawyer means the law, and in Sicily, from where their fathers came, the law has not been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten.” “Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. Justice is very important here…But this is Red Hook, not Sicily.”

Eddie at the Beginning of the Play “Him? You’ll never see him no more, a guy do a thing like that? How’s he gonna show his face?” “Oh, Jesus, no, I wouldn’t do nothin’ about that, I mean-”

Marco “In my country he would be dead by now. He would not live this long.” “The law? All the law is not in a book.” “There is no law for that? Where is the law for that?”

Eddie at the End of the Play “Give me the number of the Immigration Bureau…I want to report something. Illegal immigrants. Two of them.” “He knows that ain’t right. To do like that? To a man?...Wipin’ the neighborhood with my name like a dirty rag! I want my name, Marco.”

Alfieri at the End of the Play “Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better.” “And so I mourn him – I admit – with a certain…alarm.”