The Statue of Liberty It has been told Statue of Liberty honors the American Declaration of Independence and was a gift from France. The statue was originally made for Suez Canal in Egypt. But that idea fell through, so French sculptor Frederic Bartholdi pitched his idea to America to build a lighthouse in the shape of a women. Bartholdi formed his own funding strategies without help from the French and American government. The monstrous statue is a women wearing a loose dress like an Egyptian slave. The statue was constructed to be a muslim peasant that would stand at the gate of Suez Canal.
Bartholdi “designed a colossal woman holding up a lamp and wearing the loose fitting dress of a fellah, a slave, to stand as a lighthouse” (Nguyen1).
Bartholdi “designed a colossal woman holding up a lamp and wearing the loose fitting dress of a fellah, a slave, to stand as a lighthouse” (Nguyen1).