Question

Revisit the caricatures shown in the video. How does the use of exaggerated physical features help convey the artist’s intended meaning? Your answer should be at least 150 words.

Answer 1

Caricature tends to be comically distorted drawing or likeness, done with the purpose of satirizing or ridiculing its subject. Enlarged ears may seek to illustrate a person who hars too much, who listens to gossip. It could aslo indicate that the reverse of this could be true, the person being caricaturized, the artist is saying, needs to listen more, words have fallen on deaf ears and they need to grow to a size where they might listen to what others are speaking.

Cartoons are used today primarily for conveying political commentary and editorial opinion in newspapers and for social comedy and visual wit in magazines. Many caricatures ahve been made of our current President Trump. In these drawings, he is often seen to have small hands (the illustrator attempting to say that the President cannot be entrusted with large tasks). His hair is often prodominant and usually in a state of disarray, the artist seeking to convey that he is not a good representative as a world leader. Whatever feature is exaggerated, it is done with the purpose of pointing out a character flaw, as seen by the illustrator.

Answer 2

This year two radically new British editions of Shakespeare have begun to appear in print, one from Oxford University Press and the second from Cambridge University Press. Either can reasonably expect to become the standard classroom text for an entire generation to come. Since the Shakespeare our children grow up on will thus be in some respects a very different author from the one we have known, the occasion demands a look at the older editions which formed our conception of Shakespeare in this century, as well as an evaluation of the new man these fresh versions offer to future readers.