"bridge Overlooks The Cultural Conflict And Tragedy Color

Arthur Miller is the most important postwar realistic playwright and excellent dramatic theoretician in the United States. His most successful play Death of a Salesman established him as the leading playwright of his time. And the collection of his essays The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller was edited and published in 1978.This paper, based on Miller's theories of social play and modern tragedy,employs; Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis and Norman N.Holland's postmodern psychoanalysis to discuss the life tragedy of the protagonist in his two-act play A View from the Bridge, which explores the cultural collision and individual unconsciousness. The play sets the life of Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, America, as the social cultural background, revealing the Sicilian cultural traditions and social values, and shows the differences between Sicilian morals and American modern law, analyzing the process of collision, exchange and co-existence within different cultural and individual psychology. The paper tries to highlight that people from different regions, races and cultures should absorb the advantages of each other, and contribute to a peaceful and glorious human world.