Shoe-Horn Sonata

An individuals perception of the world is unique, conflicted by emotions and hard influenced by their surroundings, thus giving individuals a distinct interpretation of how typical experiences convey meaning. The cultivate the Shoehorn Sonata composed by John Misto in which he explores distinctive experiences high cleaning themes and memories, evidently both characters Bridie and Sheila overcame themes of adversity, captivity, human justifiedlys and last friendship through embracing their experiences.Mistos main focus was to introduce forth awareness for the nurses through distinctive experiences. John Misto cleverly instigates aspects of overleap of freedom via bringing forth last(prenominal) experiences involved in fictile the characters state of mind. Moreover Misto explores the theme captivity and sentiments of lose of human rights through Bridies traumatic war experiences, Filthy pits-dug step to the fore in the open. We werent allowed privacy, a basic human right st ripped away by the Nipponese in which Misto used the pits-dug emerge to symbolise lack of freedom.Furthermore Bridies quondam(prenominal) experiences introduced via anecdotes evoked past emotions of hatred and fear amongst the Japanese when situated near them, Bus load of Japanese tourists surrounded me, my heart began to pound in solicitude, Bridies past experiences manipulated her state of mind, this is evident in Bridies perception of right Japanese tourists. More so Mistos utilisation of hyperbole, pound in terror while facing the audience, Bridie broke the fourth wall as a result it displayed Bridies fragile condition allowing the audience to sympathise for Bridie.This notion further reinforced by the incorporation of juxtaposition contrasting past experiences within the camp to her retort while surrounded by harmless Japanese tourists 50 years later. Additionally, Mistos purpose was to bring light to the lack of awareness of the nurses to ensure they received recognitio n for the events theyve endured. Throughout the play Mistos input of projections of war atrocities reinforce Bridie and Sheilas anecdotes of pain and hardship.In accompaniment this not only reinforces the distinctively visual that are being perceived through the dialogue but as well concrete images Misto utilises in conjunction to the abstract stories to reflect the period Bridie and Sheila was in the camp. In particular(a) Mistos application of symbolism in scenes 13 creates emphasis on the diaries those diaries were our only hope. A piece of history that re-tell the events which occurred during WWII in the Japanese camps were burned byBritish, Misto ideally wanted this scene to be acknowledged by audience in order for them to understand Sheilas perspective. It was apparent the British did not want the events that impacted the womens lives to be known, as they would be considered a shame to the empire. Furthermore it is transparent that the Britishs response to burn the diaries a ffected Sheilas decision to stay in Perth alternatively of moving back to her homeland, this notion of staying in Australia is strongly juxtaposed as Sheila is patriotic one never stops being British. Nor does one not want to.