3 Years Of Mucus In My Throat

Contrast, 1792

--- E sta Thomas Rowlandson cartoon, commissioned by the Association for the Preservation of Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, is indicative of spin and counter-revolutionary nationalist who gave the English public opinion during the 1790's. ---

It is known as the Revolution discovered its history and was inserted into the European political scene, calling into question-and-forced to redefine the positions of other states, the opinion was turning in England Francophobia initial sympathy. The first government measures of repression and censorship in England dating back to 1792, from 1793, with the death of Louis XVI, Terror and the start of the war, the repressive measures became more radical, opinion was polarized and gained strength Together, the counterrevolutionary movement. ---

In this representation, 1792 the English ideal of freedom is built-values \u200b\u200bin contrast to those deposited in the "French liberty." So on the one hand, are, as we read in sections, "Religion, morality, loyalty, obedience to law, personal independence, security, justice, industry, national prosperity and happiness", values \u200b\u200brepresented by the medieval figure, noble and serene, with the Constitution in his lap, the lion at his feet, the balance in his hands, behind the green tree and the sea with boat in the background. And on the other hand, are aligned, "Atheism, perjury, rebellion, treason, anarchy, murder, equality, madness, cruelty, injustice, betrayal, ingratitude, vagrancy, hunger, and private national ruin, misery. "

--- The contrast axis articulating aesthetic (beautiful / ugly), moral (good / bad) and social (high / low) is the violence that English Freedom sublime and controls, and that French scarecrow displays in its onset, with a decapitated body and his head stuck in the sink and a corpse hanging from a lamppost in the background. (The problem is the head, evidently: the grotesque Medusa looks traits). The "natural" order of reading from left to right, is seen first to the quiet English liberty, and then as an aggression, going against, the French liberty. The question in bottom of the image sector, "What is the best?" Leaves no doubt about the views reflected in this work of art. ---

An interesting fact: the pen that drew this prudish English liberty is the same that drew the most "indecent" images of sexual picaresque period (see this gallery ).