Visual Techniques in The Shoe-Horn Sonata • On Air Sign: Bridie and Sheila sharing their experiences as POWs with Australia = A visual reminder of the intrusion into their privacy. • Evacuation of Singapore on 13 Feb‚ 1942 alongside the Women and children boarding ships‚ clutching toys‚ waving goodbye. Women and children fleeing from the city that was about to be invaded by a conquering army. “It is hard to believe from their happy smiles that they are soon to be the victims of history’s worst
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Emma Keehan World Literature lesson 22 2. (B) Pozdnyshev believes that things should be as they are‚ so when doctors instruct women on ways by which to not have children‚ Pozdnyshev starts his hatred of “the high priests of science.” He continues with his rant of murders in the womb and operations to avoid children and that no one counts these murders because they‚ according to the majority of the population‚ are a benefit to humanity. NF. How does it contribute to his “fall?” Possibly she
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2014 The Role of Eros in The Kreutzer Sonata and Death in Venice The interplay of love and sexuality within humanity has been explored for thousands of years. This theme has shaped and continues to shape mankind on a daily basis‚ so it is not surprising that this topic can be found in literature of every era dating from the present to ancient times. Specifically within European literature of the 18th and 19th century‚ Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice concentrate
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Misto‚ playwright of the Shoe-Horn Sonata has clearly brought forward the women’s story to the audience. Shoe-Horn is a very powerful Australian play that seeks to commemorate the endurance and heroic struggle of women interned in Japanese POW camps during World War II. Misto achieves this through a combination of dramatic techniques‚ themes‚ characterisation and settings making the past vivid and understandable. The characters presented in the Shoe-Horn Sonata are fictional‚ but the events are based
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capacity to destroy is represented through the distinctly visual. In the Shoehorn Sonata and Dulce Et Decorum Est the writers have invited the audience to examine societies role in acknowledging humane treatment and the importance of reflecting on suffering experienced. The horror of the war experience is represented visually through the anecdotes. In Dulce Et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen) and in the Shoe-Horn Sonata (John Misto) the traumatic experience is recreated through the use of symbolism.
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position to experience the different impacts and emotions associated with the texts. These techniques allow the distinctively visual to have the power to manipulate the audience’s expectations and strong feelings towards the texts. The Shoe-horn Sonata written by John Misto and the short film‚ ’Lovefield’ directed by Mathieu Ratthe allows the responder to experience both positive and negative themes associated with the texts such as power‚ war‚ friendship and bravery which therefore enables them
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Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor‚ K. 310 Mozart’s Mourning “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” – Victor Hugo The Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor‚ K. 310‚ composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ is an original piece which stands out even among all of his other works. To fully appreciate this sonata however‚ one must understand the events in Mozart’s life preceding the writing of this piece. Written in the summer of 1778 shortly after the
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Advanced Form and Analysis Spring 1998 An Analysis of Beethoven s Sonata for Cello and Piano in A major‚ Op. 69‚ mvmt. 1 Beethoven’s Sonata for Cello and Piano‚ Op. 69‚ was written in 1808-09‚ just following his Symphony no. 6‚ Op. 68‚ “The Pastoral.” It may have been written with his “immortal beloved” in mind‚ since the dedication is to one of the suspected “beloved’s” brothers-in-law. On one copy‚ Beethoven wrote‚ in Latin‚ the phrase “Between Tears and Sorrow.” In this Romantic sonata‚ the two instruments
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heir language forms and features. The composer John Misto of ‘Shoe-Horn Sonata’ creates a wide image of distinctive visual techniques through imagery. John Misto uses this visual technique to raise awareness of the damaged chaos that occurred to the women who have been captured by the Japanese. By using distinctively visual techniques Misto allows the viewers to empathise with the crucial actors/segregation that the Japanese people were showing towards the women. “I wanted to cry. But I reminded
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(Introduction - Introduce both texts and composer/director‚ short plot outline and link to question and examples) Photographs are a chilling reminder of the truth behind these women’s recounts‚ and an acknowledgement of their strength. Misto uses photographic images to achieve several things within his play. Firstly the images transport the audience to the world which these women are describing through their dialogue of memories. In Act One‚ whilst Bridie describes the evacuation of Singapore
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