Thursday, October 4, 2007

ch.17 sct.1 C.T.#4

I think the artist of the cartoon had an unfavorable opinion of Carry Nation, revealed in the way they portray the scene in the painting. Carry looks very fat and big-headed, which could represent the way the artist felt about her (negatively). The men in the bar all look like scared, helpless victims, rather innocent. The bar lays in complete destruction and there is no sign of moral improvement or even victory... just destruction. The way this scene is depicted so negatively implies that the artist had a very unfavorale opinion of the prohibitionist, Carry Nation.

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