Truth MITCHELL TEGAN DANI CONNOR TERRY Motif Dramatic

Truth MITCHELL, TEGAN, DANI, CONNOR, TERRY

Motif Dramatic Feature - Chop’s bone “Sheila holds up a small chop bone. Bridie looks at it fondly”(stage direction) pg. 45 Visualises - The audience is given the “mind picture” of the conditions that Sheila and Bridie were exposed to at the Japanese camps (starvation) How it achieves and effect meaning - Both the audience and the interviewer are shown the truth about what happened to the nurses. The actual Chop Bone being presented to the interviewer makes the entire experience real.

Dialogue Dramatic Feature - “we weren’t allowed privacy, you had to squat in front of everyone… guards… always watch”. Pg. 42 Visualises - Visualises the humiliation of the women when they need to use the toilet. How it achieves and effect meaning - Demonstrates the unreasonable conditions the women and children were put through at the camps.

Visual Images Dramatic Feature - “darkness. Then we see a photograph of children in a Japanese prison camp. They are stick thin, obviously starving, dressed in rags, filthy”. Visualises - This exposed the truth of the conditions and state the women were in, which the government wanted to keep a secret. How it achieves and effect meaning - Evokes emotion within the audience, provides insight and empathy into the courage it took for the nurses and children to suffer through.

Power

Vivid Imagery portraying Powerlessness in Act I, Scene v Dramatic Features “BRIDIE” He didn’t understand. In fact, my resistance seemed to excite him. His cheeks were red and he was dribbling. ” – Vivid imagery. Visualisation The audience is force to visualise the loss of innocence in a real and concrete way. The women are dominated and tortured and subjugated by the Japanese soldiers, seen particularly in the way in which they exploited them sexually. Effect meaning and audience response Women are shown to be powerless in face of a violent oppressor; they are shown in this instant to be completely powerless to prevent their own violation and suffering

Motif and History visualising the power of the women in Act I, Scene v Dramatic Features • Use of the musical score of “Bolero” • Use of the on stage motif of the “shoe horn” • “Oh we were just a bunch of amateurs in a prison camp in the corner of the jungle. But to us we became the Glen Miller Orchestra and the London Philharmonic all rolled into one. ” • Historical veracity / historical allusion – very much based on the life and actions of meeting Margaret Dryburgh – also relates to the ideas of “truth” in this scene, the historical allusion adding the visualisation of truth Visualisation through dramatic elements o. The women’s unwavering resilience against the power of the Japanese soldiers o. The shoe-horn symbolising the will to survive and the community and friendship between the women so that through their friendship they are able to exert power to enable the “orchestra”

Motif and History visualising the power of the women in Act I, Scene v cont…. . How does it achieve meaning and affect audience reaction o. After the oppressive stories and the tension between Bridie and Shiela earlier in the scene of the sexual exploitation of the women in the camp, this story means the scene ends with a sense of humour and hope o. The women are again showing their resilience and power to survive through the formation of the orchestra o. Shows the power of the music to raise them above the circumstance in which they find themselves or despite the conditions in the POW camp