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Introduction, showing
that it is a rough and undesirable neighborhood
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“You see how uneasily they nod to me? That’s because I
am a Lawyer”
“This is the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world” |
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Theme of Law and Justice
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“A lawyer
means the law”“Justice
is very important here”
“The law
does not…”
“Yes. In
a book. There is no other law.”
“This is not God, Marco. You hear? Only God makes
justice”
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Can't stop what is going on, in reference to Eddie, foreshadowing what will happen later in the play
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“Heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless
as I, and watched it run its bloody course”
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Stage direction, symbolic of the bad things to occur
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“Alfieri walks
into darkness”
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Clears
indication that something is about to happen
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“Trouble that would not go away”
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Entering at the moment of high tension and stress, foreshadowing an event, as Rodolfo has arrived
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“His eyes
were like tunnels; my first thought was that he had committed a crime”“Because
there’s nothing illegal about a girl falling in love with an immigrant.”
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Eddie's describing Roldolfo's singing to Alfieri, showing Eddie's jealousy
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“Well that’s a tenor”
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Alfieri knows about Eddie's unnatural emotions towards Catherine
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“There’s
too much. You know? There’s too much, and it goes where it musn’t”“She
can’t marry you (Eddie), can she?”
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Alfieri is able to see Eddie seal his own fate
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“I could see every step coming, step after step, like
a dark figure walking down a hall toward a certain door.”
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Aware of his growing jealousy, foreshadowing an upcoming event
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“But I
will never forget how dark the room became when he looked at me; his eyes were
like tunnels.”
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Theme of Law, telling Eddie that he can never own Catherine
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“Morally
and legally you have no rights, you cannot stop it; she is a free agent.”“I heard
what you told me, and I’m telling you what the answer is. I’m not only telling
you now, I’m warning you – the law is nature”“When the
law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a
river will drown you if you buck it now.”
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Trying to knock some sense into Eddie, telling him that he can never have Catherine
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Alfieri persuading Eddie to let Catherine go as he will never be able to have her anyways.
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“Let her
go.”
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Stage direction, foreshadowing that he is about to call immigration
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"A phone booth begins to glow”
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Foreshadowing Eddie's fate if he decided to call the immigration
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“You
won’t have a friend in the world, Eddie!”
“He follows into
the darkness”
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