Distinctive images immerse us in the lives of others and as result, our preconceived ideas and views regarding those people can be challenged and reshaped, leading us to be exposed to a more personal account of history. John Misto Shoe Horn Sonata illustrates personal accounts of the protagonists Bridie and Sheilas time at war, and their suffering in imprisonment, something of which unknown and unpublished to the common public. Similarly Kegan Wilcox’s ”porcelain unicorn” depicts a countercultural German boy during World War II, exposing a virtually unknown group of people to the audience, a group opposed to the ideology of the Nazi regime by depicting the unnamed protagonist showing compassion towards a Jewish girl.
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Misto uses asyndeton to increases the effectiveness of the image creating a rhythm between whilst delivering confronting observation about the women's state giving the text a pathos quality. Through the use of the combination of techniques such as distinct imagery and confronting text, Misto prompts an emotional response from the audience exposing them to an unseen suffering challenging their prior ideas and as a result changing how they perceive WW2 nurses. During act 1 scene 8 it is revealed to the audience that Sheila has had the shoehorn ever since the way which was thought to have been traded for quinine tablets to save Bridie. By revealing the Shoehorn the audience is left to question how she got the quinine tablets. Misto then answers this by the use of provocative language “where did you get the quinine tablets”(bridie) which is used in tandem with the diegetic stage sound of “crickets, distant at first gradually getting louder”. The reveal of the distinctive shoehorn acts as a physical symbol of bridie and sheilas suffering as wartime prisoners, representing everything they went through. the reveal of the shoe horns acts as a cathartic release for Sheila whom …show more content…
during the first interaction between the boy and girl, the compassion and humanitarian nature possessed by the boy is introduced. This is firstly expressed as Wilcox utilizes a close up neutral angle shot whilst the children bask in a soft yellow light. Through the use of this neutral angle shot and yellow light Wilcox is able to display the children's attitudes to each other, attitudes of which passive and accepting. During this scene, the light likens they boys compassion and humanity and creating a somewhat relaxed atmosphere. The neutral close up angle is particularly at showing each child's facial expressions laying emphasis on their innocence indicated by their friendly expressions, particularly displaying the boy's innocence and positive intent. Wilcox then shows a close-up shot of the girl's star of David sewn onto her sleeve to which she says “isn't it beautiful”, in response contrary to what the audience may think the boy does not dispute this statement. This particular scene at glance may seem insignificant however Wilcox utilises the star of David to to symbolically represent the entirety of the Jewish faith meaning the reaction the boy has to this symbol, somewhat represents his attitude to the Jewish race as a whole, his freethinking and compassion towards the Jewish race extremely countercultural for the time
By the use of distinctive …show more content…
Misto uses asyndeton to increases the effectiveness of the image creating a rhythm between whilst delivering confronting observation about the women's state giving the text a pathos quality. Through the use of the combination of techniques such as distinct imagery and confronting text, Misto prompts an emotional response from the audience exposing them to an unseen suffering challenging their prior ideas and as a result changing how they perceive WW2 nurses. During act 1 scene 8 it is revealed to the audience that Sheila has had the shoehorn ever since the way which was thought to have been traded for quinine tablets to save Bridie. By revealing the Shoehorn the audience is left to question how she got the quinine tablets. Misto then answers this by the use of provocative language “where did you get the quinine tablets”(bridie) which is used in tandem with the diegetic stage sound of “crickets, distant at first gradually getting louder”. The reveal of the distinctive shoehorn acts as a physical symbol of bridie and sheilas suffering as wartime prisoners, representing everything they went through. the reveal of the shoe horns acts as a cathartic release for Sheila whom …show more content…
during the first interaction between the boy and girl, the compassion and humanitarian nature possessed by the boy is introduced. This is firstly expressed as Wilcox utilizes a close up neutral angle shot whilst the children bask in a soft yellow light. Through the use of this neutral angle shot and yellow light Wilcox is able to display the children's attitudes to each other, attitudes of which passive and accepting. During this scene, the light likens they boys compassion and humanity and creating a somewhat relaxed atmosphere. The neutral close up angle is particularly at showing each child's facial expressions laying emphasis on their innocence indicated by their friendly expressions, particularly displaying the boy's innocence and positive intent. Wilcox then shows a close-up shot of the girl's star of David sewn onto her sleeve to which she says “isn't it beautiful”, in response contrary to what the audience may think the boy does not dispute this statement. This particular scene at glance may seem insignificant however Wilcox utilises the star of David to to symbolically represent the entirety of the Jewish faith meaning the reaction the boy has to this symbol, somewhat represents his attitude to the Jewish race as a whole, his freethinking and compassion towards the Jewish race extremely countercultural for the time