Visual Metaphors: Exploring Life's Significance Through Text

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The conveyance of distinctive visuals within texts draw great significance to the various aspects of life poised within their stories. Performed with the aim of elevating the audience’s understanding, this can suggestively nurture the common response amongst them of the significant aspects of life. This references a deep awareness of the composer’s concerns; further concocting the profound significance of the provided visuals and their implied meaning. This is clearly evident within John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ which with the provided listening stimulus of John Misto’s Interview and Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ‘Crossing The Red Sea’ through the exploration of delicate notions such as the physical journey through times of hardship …show more content…

This idea is heavily facilitated in Act I Scene VIII when, due to the symbolic motif of the shoe horn, Sheila expresses the true horrifics that had occurred. “You were screaming. And he went and got quinine,” evokes a sympathetic mood but also a rather revolting emotion amongst the audience. The inevitable truth, initially hidden by the selling of the shoe horn provide an emphasis, discretely crafted and conjoined with the background sounds, by juxtaposing Sheila’s sacrifice to uncover the seriousness of the situation and the magnitude of the true sacrifice, done so to enhance emotions within the story. Despite the lack of support, an inner belief and hope of survival allows critical moments in the story to transcend thoughtful dedications of those captive in the midst of the war. Such portrayal can be witnessed during moments of sacrifice in order to keep their hopes alive. Act I Scene VI illustrates this notion via the symbolistic representation of sacrificed food. ‘And BRIDIE produces a small tobacco tin,’ “You gave me your dinner...It was food. Your food.” The production of the tin concatenates the nostalgia to its value of the sacrificed food where they shared their starvation, posing as a mean to stay hopeful, thus, further elucidating the character development and their ability to remain motivated towards their survival by sacrificing other significant aspects of their life. [INCLUDE A MISTO

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