My way of analysing a political cartoon:
- Read caption
- find main focal point or conflict within the picture
- note who drew the cartoon and what their view of politics is
- cartoonists use symbols to convey a larger concept.
- cartoonists often label people or things within the cartoon.
The Library of Congress talks more about analysing the devices used by the cartoonists and not about the cartoonist in general as i expected.
Going forward, I will begin to look for things such as irony and symbolism within a political cartoon.
Political Cartoon from Stanford University displaying the Philippines as being an open door to America/Americans
In this cartoon, the man holding open the gate looks like uncle Sam and he is letting greedy americans come into the Philippines to take whatever they please. The open door to the Philippines is believed to help the US to achieve the open door in China too.
In this cartoon, the man holding open the gate looks like uncle Sam and he is letting greedy americans come into the Philippines to take whatever they please. The open door to the Philippines is believed to help the US to achieve the open door in China too.
I know that the political cartoonist is trying to show how Americans thought that they had free access to the Philippines because he/she is drawing an American icon holding the gate open and waving Americans to enter.
America disciplining the Filipinos attempt to fight back. (found 1/3 of the way down on the website)
In this political cartoon, Uncle Sam is scolding Little Aguinaldo and not allowing him to fight back. This is similar to how the US did not let the Filipinos fight back to reclaim their independence. Also, the cartoonist depicts Spain in the background eavesdropping on their conversation and looking very dumb, which describes Spain as being dumb and unable to reclaim the Philippines.
I imagined that idea, by looking at this cartoon, because the Artist draws Uncle Sam to represent America and he is pointing at the rocks below the Filipino and telling him not to throw them, which represents the Filipinos' want to gain their independence.
Political cartoon which happened to be from Reeds blog.
In this political cartoon, Uncle Sam is acting like he is about to spank and punish the Filipino for acting out against the US. Also, there is $20 million in Uncle Sam's hat, which is how much the US paid for the Philippines.
America disciplining the Filipinos attempt to fight back. (found 1/3 of the way down on the website)
In this political cartoon, Uncle Sam is scolding Little Aguinaldo and not allowing him to fight back. This is similar to how the US did not let the Filipinos fight back to reclaim their independence. Also, the cartoonist depicts Spain in the background eavesdropping on their conversation and looking very dumb, which describes Spain as being dumb and unable to reclaim the Philippines.
I imagined that idea, by looking at this cartoon, because the Artist draws Uncle Sam to represent America and he is pointing at the rocks below the Filipino and telling him not to throw them, which represents the Filipinos' want to gain their independence.
Political cartoon which happened to be from Reeds blog.
In this political cartoon, Uncle Sam is acting like he is about to spank and punish the Filipino for acting out against the US. Also, there is $20 million in Uncle Sam's hat, which is how much the US paid for the Philippines.
