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A View from the Bridge

Here you will find all revision notes, homework activities and essay help on Arthur Miller’s ‘A View from the Bridge’.

Practice Textual Analysis using opening monologue (studied in class):  Textual Analysis Questions Alfieri’s Monologue

Homework Questions: Act 1 questions  and Act 2 questions

Revision Notes: (essay structural advice at end of PPT);   A View from the Bridge Combined ;  A View from the Bridge Quotation Bank ; Quotation Bank

Essay Help and Exemplars: N6 Practice Critical Essay Questions ; A View Obsessive Behaviour essay guidance ; A View From the Bridge essay guidance ; A View Exemplar

Essay Questions:  Essay Tasks ,  N6 Practice Critical Essay Questions

Group Revision:  Revision Guide 2018  (Revision Guide)  A View from the Bridge Quotation Bank 2018

A View from the Bridge

By arthur miller.

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• Explain the role of betrayal in the play. Who betrays who? Who feels betrayed? Who really is betrayed? How? Why?

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As the full scope of the dramatic and shocking collapse of Baltimore's crucial Francis Scott Key Bridge comes into focus, the region and the nation are just beginning to grapple with what the future, both near and long-term, might hold, but there are tough questions still unanswered.

The bridge was a critical link in the transportation system serving a metro area of more than 2.8 million people and a vital artery for East Coast shipping. Its collapse not only means the loss of a major roadway but also at least temporarily a large, thriving port until the wreckage of the bridge and the ship can be cleared and, perhaps, a new bridge can be constructed.

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The cause of the collapse was evident in gut-wrenching video that captured the moments Tuesday when the Dali , a hulking , Sri Lanka-bound cargo ship, hit one of the bridge's A-shaped support piers, causing the steel structure to fail and fall into the Patapsco River.

Officials say the 984-foot ship suffered a power outage and sounded a mayday, allowing them to stop vehicle traffic before the collision. But they have not yet elaborated on why the ship lost power or other factors that may have played a role. The National Transportation Safety Board recovered the vessel's black box recorder and the investigation is ongoing.

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How long will it take to remove the ship and the debris in the water?

Benjamin Schafer, a professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, said Wednesday that it would be difficult to gauge how long it might take to remove debris from the Dali and the bridge.

But in a meeting with journalists, he indicated it would be wise to think in terms of months, rather than weeks.

“I’d be shocked if it’s weeks but I don’t think it’ll take even a year,” said Schafer, a structural engineer. 

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A complete rebuild could take a decade or more, Schafer said. He noted that building the original bridge took five years and rebuilding the Skyway Bridge in Tampa after it was hit by a freighter in 1980 took seven.

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"The price tags never seem to be out of the hundred of millions these days," he said.

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Susu Xu, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins' Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, said there are some s teps that can be taken to try and avert a bridge collapse and potentially catastrophic loss of life.

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Sensors could be installed on piers or bridge decks to detect when a ship is getting too close and trigger warning lights to stop traffic from entering the bridge and alert emergency responders and other agencies, Xu said.

Building collapse-proof bridges is more challenging, Schafer said. It could be done, but it would be costly. So-called dolphin structures – barriers placed near bridges to divert ships – can be helpful, he said, but they might not work, given the sheer volume of cargo vessels.

"These things are a balance and we as a society, we have to try to make these choices the best we can to have the economic engines like the port, to have a transportation network," Schafer said. "What it feels like right now is that we didn't get the balance right, and there needed to be more consideration for this possible event."