The analysis process you need to follow for the essay task :

1. The analysis process you need to follow for the essay task: Key Scenes which show distinctively visual images of different forms of conflict in The Shoehorn Sonata

3. Definitions of conflict: • military warfare between opposing forces, especially a prolonged and bitter but sporadic struggle • a disagreement or clash between ideas, principles, or people • a psychological state resulting from the often unconscious opposition between simultaneous but incompatible desires, needs, drives, or impulses

4. “bickering”: to argue in a bad-tempered way about something unimportant • Bantering • Squabbling • Wrangling • Nit-picking • Criticising • Hairsplitting (“splitting hairs”) • Picking-on (“picking at’”) • Quibbling • Being finicky/fussy

6. Key Scenes From Shoehorn Sonata which show distinctively visual ideas about various forms of conflict.

7. Bickering to Unity

8. Images of “conflict” in key scenes Scene 4 In this scene, the tension in the relationship between Bridie and Sheila is contrasted with the friendship they shared in the face of the atrocities of the POW camp.

11. Scene 8 With the revelation of Sheila’s sacrifice in Scene 8, the tension between Sheila and Bridie reaches a climax,

12. Scene 14 This is the final scene in which we see Sheila and Bridie finally begin to leave the war behind.