Shoe Horn Sonata Play Analysis

Imagine being mentally tortured, beaten and starved to death? Imagine you were taken away from your family and raped till death?

Shoe Horn Sonata is an impressive story of courage, hope, horror and friendship. This play is a tribute to commemorate the bravery of the women and to make their story of survival widely known. The historical context that the story has enables us to learn about the past events and to understand the true meaning of war and its consequences. The play draws on real events. Misto uses the play to demonstrate the devastation of war and the human spirit and will to survive, both prevalent themes throughout the play. Such themes are exemplified to the audience through the use of dramatic techniques such as music, projected …show more content…
Also when the Australian Nurses were pretending to have tuberculoses, Bridie mentions with humour “that night turned me off blind dates forever”. John Misto also used distinctly visual images to shape meaning and understanding of audience. His first distinctly visual image is where the black and white projected photographs have been shown to us a slide show of the Japanese where is there plot face are not shown in full. This shapes the audience understand that they look sinister where in other words dangerous and mysterious. This has also been seen in terrible secret that at the start of the documentary you see black and white footages of the war and the japs. This shows the audience the brutality of the …show more content…
In comparison of the shoe horn sonata Sheila finally tells the truth to bridie of what had really happened to her. This was shown in scene eight page58 (n’t usee I was scared. I hated those coffins those awful bamboo boxes that the Japanese made us use. Twenty women all are struggling just to carry one between us. I wasn’t going to carry, Bridie I couldn’t let you die and leave me. I wouldn’t have survived so I went to the