(INTRO) John Misto’s drama ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ depicts the journey of two women captured by the Japanese during World War ll. The play reveals the unresolved problems of their relationship after fifty years. The reunion of Bridie and Sheila and their problems are dramatized and resolved through Misto’s use of dramatic techniques. He effectively creates images of tension‚ hardship‚ hope and survival‚ friendship and forgiveness to emphasize the relationship between the two women. (DOUBLE-HANDER)
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Music Appreciation Day 1: In-Depth Focus on a Piece Select a piece of music and research it in depth. You will first find all of the essential background material for the piece. Then‚ you will write about your own reactions to the piece. Title: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia" or moonlight soneta Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven Performer(s): Ludwig Van Beethoven 1. What year was the piece written? What period of music history was this? It was composed in the year 1801. It was
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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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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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Good evening year 12 of Model Farm High. My name is sunny and I am going to briefy discuss about the play Shoe Horn Sonata by John Misto in relation to distinctively visual. The Shoe Horn Sonata is a play that shows distinctively visual narratives of female prisoners of war. Misto convey ideas of female survivors who live through war in Japanese camps suffering brutality from their violent Japanese oppressors. He does this by using visual techniques including photographs displaying humiliation
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Sonata No. 1 in D major by Beethoven This sonata for violin and piano was written along with a series of sonatas written by Beethoven within a five year period between 1798 and 1803. This sonata has three movements. The first being allegro Con Brio‚ the second Tema Con Variazoini and the third‚ Rondo Allegro. The first movement has several characteristics from the classical period‚ resembling much of Mozart and Hayden’s work. This is not surprising considering the fact that Beethoven
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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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The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto ‘Distinctively Visual’ After your reading‚ please answer the following questions to show your understanding. Please write in full sentences‚ in your own words‚ using evidence from the text where you can. 1 Describe what you see on the front cover of the play. What clues does this give you about the play? 2 After the Contents’ page there is a photograph. Who is this photograph of? 3 What do you learn from the information you are given about the
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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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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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