Ocular Techniques in The Shoe-Horn Sonata
•On Air Sign: Bridie and Sheila sharing their experiences as POWs with Australia = A ocular reminder of the invasion into their privateness. •Evacuation of Singapore on 13 Feb. 1942 alongside the Women and kids get oning ships. seizing playthings. beckoning adieu. Women and kids flying from the metropolis that was about to be invaded by a conquest ground forces. “It is difficult to believe from their happy smilings that they are shortly to be the victims of history’s worst – and least known – massacre” ( p 30 ) = Reinforces the artlessness and exposure of the adult females and kids.

This remark foreshadows the awful events in the drama. It besides hints at the great haughtiness of the British Empire which blindly believed in its ain high quality. •“ [ the ( British ) ship ] ballad there like a hurt animate being. sloping oil alternatively of blood. ” ( 31 ) Sheila describes the sinking of her ship as she sees it from the H2O. = This simile compares the ship with an animate being ; the ship personifies the British Empire. wounded. hemorrhage and defeated by its enemy. This technique demonstrates the wake of the British haughtiness. •“Sound: Young Sheila wailing a line or two from Jerusalem – a really moving and stirring anthem about the illustriousness of England – God’s chosen Empire. “In juxtaposed against the “Slides of Singapore Harbour – filled with firing ships. ” The usage of directorial notes is stipulated to underscore the entire humiliation and licking of the British Empire. •The autumn of Singapore represents the terminal of British domination in South East Asia: “we see 100s of winning Nipponese soldiers. their weaponries raised in victory … •It is a most distressing sight.

For this exposure has captured the minute when the British Empire teetered and fell …” After this. Australians no longer trusted Britain to support Australia. This is conveyed really efficaciously in the drama. Misto juxtaposes projected images of the autumn of Singapore with the sound of Sheila singing the celebrated British anthem Jerusalem. •“These former swayers of the British Empire are now skin and bone and dressed in shreds. ” This shows the agony and mistreatment of the captives – their famishment. hapless adjustment foulness and illness. The music. It’s a … lovely twenty-four hours tomorrow. Sung by Young Sheila. contrasts with the ocular image. demoing the mental agony of the captives