interpret and create meaning from otherwise complex concepts. John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ and Mike Subritzky’s poem ‘Sister’ both challenges the audience’s interpretation of the traumatic experiences of war. Through a range of distinctly visual techniques both composers help create an understanding of the power of time and the human spirit as overcoming adversity of war. As Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata develops‚ the distinctly visual stage positioning of Bridie and Sheila changes to
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The play “Shoe horn sonata” written by Misto creates and manipulates images that challenge the audience’s beliefs and attitudes. This is shown throughout the techniques. Other examples of this are also shown through the movie “Pleasantville” by Garry Ross and the song “across the universe” by the Beatles. The Beatles song “Across the universe”‚ chosen words and lyrics helps identify the emotion that is being portrayed and also may give a visual image from the thoughts that are felt through the
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Distinctively Visual Image Page 52 “On the other side of our barbed wire fence were twenty or thirty Aussie men – as skinny as us – and wearing slouch hats. Unlike the Japs‚ they had hairy legs. And they were standing in rows – serenading us.” John Misto created a written visual image that comes through in Act 1 Scene 7 (Page 52). This is brought up in the play when Bridie and Sheila are being interviewed by Rick (Host)‚ they were originally talking about the conditions that they were in‚ how they
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The distinctly visual is able to shape perception and meaning of concerns and experiences within the texts Shoe-Horn Sonata and Changi: ‘Seeing is believing’. The use of techniques in both texts allows the audience to understand the effects of war on the individual and the impact of the experiences encountered. The Shoe-Horn Sonata is a play by John Misto that gives an insight into two lives of two female prisoners of war in World War 2. The play explores terrible events associated with prisoners
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thoughts and when the war ended they married. Importance of Scene 7 Scene 7 serves to reinforce for the audience the wartime bonds of friendship between the two women‚ a reoccurring theme within the play‚ and their shared caramel provides a powerful image in our minds of the deprivation they endured‚ but also of the tenacity‚ hope and friendship they clung to. Distinctively Visual Elements of the Scene • Caramel is symbolic because it symbolizes hope and survival of the girls. This shows that the
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objective to influence the world stage on societal matters and issues of unwarranted or unreasonable conduct or thought. In John Misto’s play ‚ The Shoe Horn Sonata ‚ the use of literal ‚ visual and dramatic techniques validates the intolerable and unjust ordeals and sufferings of those civilians in times of war. The play was written with the distinctive reasons to commemorate and educate the audience to respond appropriately to their government’s mismanagement of these peoples’ rights and compensation
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The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto The opening scene‚ with Bridie demonstrating the deep‚ subservient bow‚ the kow-tow‚ demanded of the prisoners by their Japanese guards during tenko‚ takes the audience straight into the action. As the interviewer‚ Rick‚ poses questions‚ music and images from the war period flash on the screen behind Bridie‚ and the audience realises they are watching the filming of a television documentary. The time is now‚ and Bridie is being asked to recall the events of fifty
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Distinctive voices have a particular influence in languages which is employed by the composer to create voices for particular purposes. Distinctive voices can be referred to as language of the characters‚ expressing their ideas different to others. The language is set as a distinctive way which conveys the qualities and moral values of the speaker. They display the ways language is used to create voices in texts‚ and how this affects interpretation and shapes the meaning. The composer has simulated
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Spain and Portugal as music master to the princess Maria Barbara who later became Queen of Spain. The Scarlatti’s Sonatas Form and Tonal structure In the works of Scarlatti there are no sonatas that may be considered completely typical. Generally there is a single movement in binary form with both a varied and expressive range. Formal devices are utilized‚ in which each half of a sonata leads to a pivotal point that the Scarlatti scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick termed “the crux‚” and that is sometimes underlined
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Compare the way distinctive voices are created in the speeches set for study and one related text. Distinctive voices can lead us to think about significant issues that occur in the world. Distinctive voices are created through a number of language techniques such as rhetorical devices. These enhance the meaning of the speeches and depict the key information that allows listeners to be alert of the issue the speaker is raising. They all challenge society by standing up for people and their own
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