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    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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    towards Shiela‚ as evident when Shiela states “We fought all the time. You were worse than my mother” and when Bridie calls Shiela “My dear girl”. Therefore‚ the character of Bridie shifts in her role and perception throughout the play the Shoe Horn Sonata as a result of the truth being

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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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    Frederic Francois Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola‚ Poland on March 1st‚1810. Shortly after his birth his parents moved to Warsaw‚ where he grew up. While growing up people said Chopin was a sensitive and poetic child and he showed a passionate love of music in his early age and was even taught to play the piano by his older sister Ludwika. (Orga‚ pg.13) While he was being taught by his sister his parents started to see that he was very talented at playing the piano‚ so when he was around the age

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    (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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    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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    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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