Political And Political Politics Of The Twentieth Century

" Analysis of a political cartoon

In 1754, Benjamin Franklin drew the famous cartoon of a snake in pieces, stating “Join or Die.” The drawing was made in the eve of the French and Indian War and it required the colonies to join together for a colonial defense against the French and Indian. Now they had to band

The cartoonist uses the rhetorical and literary devices of symbolism and allusion to depict that technology and media rules over society’s opinions and decisions. The political cartoonist uses symbolism to indirectly state

The political cartoons of the 1800s reflected the feelings of many laborers of the time. The American Revolution began in the early 1800s and continued through much of the 19th century. The low wages and high fees of being a laborer, added to the long hours many worked, made people desperate to find a better way of life. Despite their need for a better life, many laborers had little skill or ability to anything else. As the cartoon shows they are being crushed between their high rent that they are required to pay and the low wages being driven by the new monopolies and corporations of the time. Eventually riots broke out in the cities as the workers got more and more desperate to push for an increase in wages.

During the 1920’s a series of events were set into motion that plunged America into one of the worst time of its existence come 1929 and later the Great Depression. Through the challenges America faced, it arose to become the world’s strongest leading economical and political superpower. As the country began to emerge stronger than ever, leaders arose to the occasion and aided its progression as a world power. One such leader was be Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Due to his actions, the memory of him was preserved in the form of political cartoons for individuals to view and come to the conclusion that despite some ill feelings toward the man, he was a man of noble character who aided America in achieving greatness.

Benjamin Franklin loved Great Britain, but he also had a soft spot in his heart for the colonies. He never wanted to give up on the English government because he thought it was one of the better free ones. He started to turn towards the colonies side, after Parliament humiliated him and classified him as a traitor because he tried to explain to them why the colonies resisted the Stamp Act. Once he was a patriot, he decided to go to France with his grandsons as a diplomat to influence the French to join the war against Britain. And he did very well there. The people of France loved his theories and thoughts about the world, calling him a “modern thinker”. He would spend time at dinner parties and salons to help gain the favor of the French in less formal locations. His opinions affected the French so much that it help pave the way for the French Revolution. The Revolutionary War would have never been won if Franklin would not have influenced the people of France the way he did. Although he had sided with colonies he still wanted the colonies and Great Britain to be friendly to one another, he even said he had wanted the British to be the protecting mother of her young country overseas so they could benefit from each other. (Ben Franklin :: biography) Benjamin Franklin died as one of the most influential people in the revolutionary war, affecting people from Europe to the

Two political cartoon images that will be analyzed include a pro imperialism depiction, “Uncle Sam’s New Class in the Art of Self-Government”, from (Harper’s Weekly, 1898) and an anti-imperialism depiction, “Fun for the Boys”, from (Life, 1900) that both demonstrated this debate. While many Americans denounced the act of imperialism, many others advocated it. The focal point of these images was to capture viewers’ attention in which the artist’s main objective was to get viewers to agree with their outlook of imperialism.

The left side of the cartoon shows the crowd of colonists. They look panicked and horrified. There are fallen colonists laying on the ground and being carried away by the other colonists. One of the victims represents Crispus Attucks. He was one of the victims in the massacre. One of the other colonists is raising his hand at the soldiers in an attempt

Two political cartoon images that will be analyzed include a pro imperialism depiction, “Uncle Sam’s New Class in the Art of Self-Government”, (Harper’s Weekly, 1898) and an anti-imperialism depiction, “Fun for the Boys”, (Life, 1900) that both demonstrated this debate. While many Americans denounced the act of imperialism, many others advocated it. The focal point of these images was to capture viewers’ attention in which the artist’s main objective was to get viewers to agree with their outlook of imperialism.

Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech sends a similar message to the political cartoon. Both documents were against the League of Nations. For example, in paragraph three of Lodge’s speech it states, “The United States

Thomas Nast, 1840-1902, was a political cartoonist who is known by some historians as “the father of modern political American political cartooning” (Simpson, ANBO). This is due in part because Nast was the person who created the donkey symbol to represent the Democratic Party and elephant symbol to represent the Republican Party. Another reason why Nast earned this title and therefore should be studied is that he changed the way cartoonists delivered their context. Before the Civil War cartoonist relied on dialogue rather than images to get the message across, however; Nast used the picture to convey the message of his cartoons (Simpson, ANBO). Since his cartoons did not need words to convey the message he was able to reach the illiterate

During the mid-eighteenth century, the American colonies began struggling with their oppressive mother colony, Great Britain. Many colonizers, however, were divided on whether to fight for freedom or to remain a subjugated colony. As a call to unity for independence, Benjamin Franklin published his famous “Join, or Die” cartoon in his newspaper the Pennsylvania Gazette. Through his depiction of a fractured snake, Benjamin Franklin was calling for the dismantled colonies to unify (join) rather than losing any semblance of independence (die). Benjamin Franklin`s political cartoon was successful in unifying the colonies against the imminent British threat since it served as a call to action for the colonists since it evoked both personal responsibility and fear.

During the American Revolution Era there was a strong conflict between Britain and the thirteen colonies that was resolved with Franklin’s help. “Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17, 1706” (Goldman) into a poor soap and candle making family where Franklin had very little schooling. Being a hard worker, he worked as an apprentice in his brother’s print shop which led him to open his own paper publishing called Pennsylvania Gazette at twenty-two.

The twentieth century, unlike any other before it, saw dramatic changes in many different areas such as science, technology, politics, religion, and society. One of the most important changes was the increasing amount of wars. People have died in wars since the very beginning, but in the twentieth century wars began to generate much higher body counts both among armies and civilian populations, being terminal and causing a drastic amount of casualties. Furthermore, in the twentieth century, two opposing dictatorships arose. Although both had many similarities, they represented the culmination of two different political ideologies that had flourished in Europe since the mid-nineteenth century. It all goes back to World War I, which produced an affected public that increasingly seek to change their circumstances in life, but attempted to do so outside of the established system. During the period leading up to World War II, there were two men who were on opposing sides; the men were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. These men were each triumphant in their rise to power in their countries and they were very comparable in the ways that they succeeded. Their success was mostly attributed to their new ideas and their politics. As well, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, two of the greatest dictators in world history demonstrated differences in ideology and the way they rise to power, however they had similarities in the methods they used to control society.

Of the various thinkers examined in history, many have contributed to the world of politics and paved the way for our modern day government. Not only have they built up a forum for how policymaking is organized and overall studied, they have also illuminated new ways to carry out our judicial systems. Two of the major component thinkers that attributed to the growth of politics as a whole were Aristotle and Plato. These two philosophers not only presented new theories but also changed how legislation is viewed by the world and potential lawmakers.