1. Analyzing Political Cartoons

2. What does a Political Cartoon do?
Political cartoons entertain the reader through the use of satire
Satire uses humor to lower something or someone in the viewer’s estimation
How does this cartoon use satire?

3. What methods do Political Cartoons use to portray satire?
Caricature
Works by exaggerating one feature of a person or thing

4. Symbols What methods do Political Cartoons use to portray satire?
Symbols represent something else
What do these symbols typically represent?
Symbols

5. Uses an object to note a similarity to something else
What methods do Political Cartoons use to portray satire?
Metaphor
Uses an object to note a similarity to something else
An invading nations might be shown as a tiger.
The invading nation acts like a tiger pouncing on its prey

6. What methods do Political Cartoons use to portray satire?
Irony expresses an idea through a contradiction between something’s literal meaning and the intended meaning. I R O N Y
How is the image of an American president with a crown on his head ironic?

7. What methods do Political Cartoons use to portray satire?
Irony can turn to Sarcasm when mockery or bitterness appears S A R C M
Andrew Johnson is shown here with a crown, but there is bitterness behind it (gluttony, excess in power)

8. What methods do Political Cartoons use to portray satire?
Stereotypes

9. What methods do Political Cartoons use to portray satire?
Work by taking a real or imagined trait of an individual to be true of the group to which the individual belongs
Stereotypes can express bias by imagining traits or over generalizing groups of people
Stereotypes

10. What is the purpose of political cartoons?
Often expose hypocrisy, point out pretentiousness, laugh at arrogance, deflate the powerful, and give voice to the underdog

13. Let’s Look at a Political Cartoon based on what we have just learned 
Describe what is happening in this cartoon
Who is the figure on the right?
Who are the figures on the left?
What is the figure on the right pointing to?
What is the message of the cartoon?