Imagine being mentally tortured‚ beaten and starved to death? Imagine you were taken away from your family and raped till death? Shoe Horn Sonata is an impressive story of courage‚ hope‚ horror and friendship. This play is a tribute to commemorate the bravery of the women and to make their story of survival widely known. The historical context that the story has enables us to learn about the past events and to understand the true meaning of war and its consequences. The play draws on real events
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Distinctively visual texts are able to manipulate the emotions of the audience to influence the responses of a collective group. John Misto‚ the person behind the play The Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ uses his distinctively visual text as a memorial for the Australian Army nurses who died in the war‚ as they were refused one by the government. “I do not have the power to build a memorial. So I wrote a play instead.” This drama illustrates the way the women were treated in the Japanese prisoner of war camps
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Distinctively Visual Essay – Shoe Horn Sonata & The Send Off In John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ (1996) and the poem ‘The Send-Off’ written by Wilfred Owen distinctively visual techniques are used to explore past experiences of war and individuals and society’s perceptions. These concepts are conveyed and explored through the use of distinctively visual techniques such as visual and aural imagery‚ stage directions and dialoged. In ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonta’ distinctly visual techniques
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different techniques used in the play “The Shoe Horn Sonata” that enable the text to be distinctively visual in conveying a point of view. Dramatic effects such as music‚ dialogue and flashbacks create the perspective of two women looking back on their memories and experiences of World War 2. Similarly‚ Kenneth Slessor uses distinctively visual elements to aid the description of mateship and death in the poem “Beach Burial”. The Shoe Horn Sonata‚ written by John Misto‚ recounts the experiences
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‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ The play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ composed by John Misto‚ is primarily focused on the incarceration of women and children in P.O.W (Prisoner Of War) camps located in the jungles of Japan in World War Two‚ rather than the most common factors of the male soldier wartime stories and other masculine hardships dealt with at the time. As the play unfolds Misto presents the audience with various theatrical components to convey the relationship of two women being interviewed to reminisce
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as being weak. This is what the main protagonists of both the play‚ Shoe Horn Sonata by John Mistro and the movie‚ Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross endured. Together with photographs‚ cinematic techniques and symbols‚ these texts represent the devastation of war‚ the bonds of friendship forged during a war and their respective will to survive. Friendship is defined as a relationship between friends. In Shoe Horn Sonata‚ when Sheila and Bridie first meet‚ it seems unlikely that they will ever be
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incomprehensible to those who have never experienced it‚ a dread that strikes at the root of one’s survival – an existential fear.” Experiences suffered by women and children in WWII Japanese POW camps are reflected in John Misto’s play‚ The Shoe-Horn Sonata. This is shown through a wide range of distinctively visual techniques such as stage directions‚ language‚ lighting‚ music and sound effects that are designed to put the audience in his characters positions. The fear confronted by the women of the
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Distinctively visual texts use a variety of techniques to convey the experiences during the war. In John Misto’s 1996 play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ which is about women nurses enduring Japanese POW camps‚ such distinctive experiences as power and survival are shown through techniques like lighting‚ projecting image‚ sound‚ symbols‚ dialogue and body language. In Kenneth Slessor’s 1942 poem ‘Beach Burial’ he also comments about survival in war and the power in distinctively visual ways
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women’s suffering during the war‚ allowing the responder to acknowledge the women‚ which will convince society to pay tribute to the women. He uses a variety of techniques which involve many senses of the responder in The Shoe-Horn Sonata to achieve this goal. The Shoe-Horn Sonata is based on two women who helped each other through hardships during World War II; they are reunited after fifty years to film a television documentary which unravels many secrets. The involvement of more than one sense
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The Form and Tonal Structure of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor‚ Op. 13‚ II. “Adagio cantabile” March 19‚ 2013 Form and Analysis Many consider Ludwig Von Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor‚ Op. 13 as his first major musical accomplishment‚ more commonly known as Sonata Pathetique. Written at the age of 27 in 1798‚ the young composer had gained instant fame and his work was published only a year later. Beethoven‚ being one of the first significant musicians to work for
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