Essay On Shoe Horn Sonata

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English essay – shoe horn sonata, distinctively visual. Important issues in the world can be brought to mind by engaging visual images. There are many examples of this present in John Misto’s play the shoehorn sonata and also Siegfried Sassoon’s poem suicide in the trenches. Shoe horn sonata was written as a tribute to inform its audience of the little known history of the forgotten prisoners of World War II, focusing on British and Australian nurses, he uses two main characters Bridie and Sheila who tell their experiences from the war. Misto does this in a humorous and often confronting manner. Through the use of distinctively visual techniques, it leads us to think about significant issues in the world, such as the mistreatment that the prisoners of war endure, the affects that the war has on the survivors and the ability of the human spirit to overcome hardships experienced in war. One significant worldly issue john Misto explores in the play is the mistreatment that the prisoners of war endure. The distinctively visual elements in the play enable the audience to visualize what Bridie and Sheila endured during their imprisonment. This is evident in act 1, scene 1. The stage directions state “Bridie stands in a spotlight. She bows stiffly from the waist, and…show more content…
The poem describes the life of a carefree boy who is unable to cope with the horrors of war so he takes his own life. Like Misto the poem is set out like his play, to depict life before, during and after the war. The use of rhyme in the first stanza shows a playful and carefree mood “slept soundly through the lonesome dark./ and whistled early with the lark. The poem then progresses to when he is in war “he put a bullet through his brain” just shows a visual of how actually terrible the war must be for a person to take his own life so he doesn’t have to continue with war any

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