Caricature

Good morning and welcome to Current Affairs Week. My name is Ellie O’Brien and I’m here today to deconstruct and analyse a political cartoon, which is shown here on the screen. This cartoon by Cathy Wilcox was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 1st October 2014. I will begin by talking about the context of the cartoon, then move on to the two main satirical techniques used, and I will conclude by evaluating the effectiveness of the cartoon. So now let’s look at the context… A report in…

significantly up the nerd-cred of the film's DVD, the most engaging portions of their commentary – which often feels pressured toward the next bit of silliness or sarcasm – ultimately can be found in the quieter moments. Say what you will about the level of caricature applied to some of the individuals featured throughout the film, but Gibson and Carle both understand the place from which those people ultimately originate. Their energy for game-history and gaming is most clear when they accept…

Caricature is a description of a person or even an object in which certain characteristics are exaggerated. Caricature is used quite often by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say that Charles Dickens created characters that are “flat” or one dimensional when using carituature in his writings such as in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say when Charles Dickens uses caricature, it leads to his characters being meaningless. The characters that he describes turns out to be “flat” or one…

procession of figures became a tool to not only caricature the negative associations with the simple procedure of a procession itself and its context, like pride or arrogance, but also a target for artists to poke fun at the groups involved in such…

hyperbole and irony to convey the idea that what goes around comes around. First, Peck’s characters are really caricatures. Priscilla isn’t the smallest of children, in fact she is the biggest person in the school, to describe this caricature he use hyperboles such as, “Picture a girl named Priscilla Roseberry, and you’ll be light years off… Even beautiful, in a bionic way”(Peck 344). This caricature represents…

because some don’t see it as a satire; instead, they see it as an excuse to make fun of Southern Americans. To truly understand Twain’s message, we must realize that Mark Twain uses caricature and structural irony to criticize upbringing determining one’s view, suggesting society’s morals are deformed. Twain uses caricature to indicate the society’s view on African Americans. Throughout the book, there are exaggerations or misleading phrases that indicates discrimination. When Pap meets an…

amusing story of Jim Smiley and his trained frog. A notorious gambler, Jim was startled one day when a stranger fed his frog lead and made Jim lose the bet. In the tall tale “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, it uses caricatures or comic characters, and hyperbole to convey the universal truth of don't be too overconfident because it could come back to hurt or mislead someone.…

drawings, this essay will focus on two sets of recurring caricatures. Firstly cartoons featuring personifications of the British and French nations will be looked at in relation to ideas of national physiognomy as well as the established cultural caricatures of these nations. Additionally I will look at two of Gillray’s most featured subjects, King George III and Napoleon Bonaparte, which allows comparison of their different caricatures in addition to their ‘actual likeness’, seen in other…

reconciliation of interracial love. Hopkins use of duality throughout Hagar’s Daughter construct the novel’s commentary on passing as it pertains to the nation’s race relationships. Her conceptualization of biological identities, inheritance, and racial caricatures paint this dichotomous fiction that is synonymous to the state of the nation. In an overall sense of duality, Hopkins uses this work not only as groundbreaking art form into serial fiction but also call her audience into social…

the film Ethnic Notions, African-Americans were poorly portrayed in many different forms of negative stereotypes from the past. These stereotypes were that of a mammy, coon, Uncle Tom, sambo, pickaninnys, and the brute. Even though these racist caricatures were popular in the past unfortunately some forms of them still exist today. The mammy was portrayed as black older woman who was fat, obedient,eager, and loyal. Furthermore, she was not the most attractive lady “never evoked sexual…