Hi!
Als Hausaufgabe sollen wir folgenden Cartoon analysieren.
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Es würde mich sehr freuen, wenn jemand meine Ausarbeitung inhaltlich und sprachlich korrekturlesen könnte.
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The coloured cartoon drawn by C.J. Taylor in 1889, portraits “the American Melting pot”.
On the right side in the picture there is a big young man with a laurel wreath and headscarf in the colors of the American flag on his head. He is wearing a white toga, the American flag around his hips and sandals. Due to his clothes he is looking like a Roman.His facial expression is neutral and his looking leftward. In his hands the man is holding a silver spoon with writing the “EQUAL RIGHTS” in capital letters. With the spoon he stiring up a big beige pot, standing on the ground, on which the word “CITIZENSHIP”. In the vessel you can see lot of people.The different skin color and wardrobe indicating that they are from different origins. Most of them are white but there is one black-skinned man as well.
The most striking person the a man standing on the left with a bloody knief and the in one hand and a convolute flag with the words ”Clan na Gael” in the other one.Thanks to his upright carriage and mien is appear embattled. His mouth is wide open, as if he is shouting.
Around the pot there is the silhoute of flames in beige. The background is kept simple in light grey.
On the left edge at the bottom in the picture you can read the signature of the drawer: C.J. Taylor.
Under the cartoon the following information are written: A 1889 cartoon portraying the American melting pot.
The term melting pot describes the development of the American society. In the past America was populated by immigrants from many nationalities. But over time people grew together so that the differences between the cultures disappeared.
In the cartoon the drawer showed several allusions to the so called melting pot .
The most obvious hint is the big vessel.It is emphasized through the word citzenship and the different looking people in the pot. Consequently there is not THE typical American, because the population is a motley crew.Through the illustration is elucidated, that every immigrant has got hes / her cultural identity and the same citzenship can’t disperse it.
A special group of Americans, the Afroamericans, is represented by the black-skinned man. In spite of abolition of slavery the Afroamericans were discriminated against and didn’t have the same rights like white people until the middle of the 20 th century. So theoretical everyone is equal, but in fact some people are more equal than other. For that reason the letters EQAUL RIGHTS written on the spon is hypocritical.
Another striking thing in the picture is the big man, dressing like a Roman but with the American flag around his hips. In this way the creator expresses that the American
constitution is basesd on the ancient Roman constitution because the Roman Republic is one of the oldest democracies right behind the ancient Greeks.
Thereby the drawer draw a parallel between the former Roman Republic and The United Staates. Certainly they share commonalities. For example the Roman Empire was a superpower just like America. The Roman Empire cover an wide area with a lot of provinces and colonies. That’s why the Roman population consist of people who belonged to different cultures and nationalities, united by the Roman Republic. Fiuratively speaking is was the first melting pot in history.
In addition both nations owed their suggess among other things to their military power. Thanks to their strong armee the Romans were able to conquer many territories and the American as a former British Colonie won the Revolutionary War agait the British.
However appart from the foreign-policy triumphs both world powers had domestic political problems like civil wars.
One example for of a civil war is shown in the picture: the man with the bloody knife and the Clan na Gael-flag. Clan na Gael was the name of an Irish Republican organization in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries, who was invoveld in the American Cevil War. So it is an allusion to the War of Secession and reminds the viewers that they should not take civil rights and equality for granted, because the ancestors had to fight for it.