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'''H1. Do you find political cartoons to be effective? Discuss in the context of the cartoon illustrated in the lecture, and note what you find to be effective or ineffective about it.'''

'''H1. Do you find political cartoons to be effective? Discuss in the context of the cartoon illustrated in the lecture, and note what you find to be effective or ineffective about it.'''

Yes, political cartoons are effective in visualizing political opinions and prejudices, although this particular example was more of a symbol than a cartoon in the modern sense of a periodical newspaper feature. It analogizes the colonies to a snake which, when chopped into small pieces, is powerless, but when unified can defend itself from oppression.  At the same time it intimates serious consequences for those who oppose the cause of the revolution and probably was intended to intimidate those who sympathized with the loyalists.

Yes, political cartoons are effective in visualizing political opinions and prejudices, although this particular example was more of a symbol than a cartoon in the modern sense of a periodical newspaper feature. It analogizes the colonies to a snake which, when chopped into small pieces, is powerless, but when unified can defend itself from oppression.  At the same time it intimates serious consequences for those who oppose the cause of the revolution and probably was intended to intimidate those who sympathized with the loyalists.