History Skills: How to analyse a cartoon
History Skills: How to analyse a cartoon (in general / in a history paper)
Step (task) 1: Analyse the given source.
➢ formal analysis
- artist, (caption?), date/place of publication, text type, source type, addressees, topic, intention, historical context (short!)
➢ detailed description (NO analysis, ONLY description)
Step (task) 2: e.g. “Put the source into the historical context [of the origins of the French Revolution] and explain the elements of the cartoon.”
➢ detailed analysis against the backdrop of the historical context
- historical context (detailed!)
- How do the elements of the cartoon relate to the historical context?
Step (task) 3: e.g. “Take a critical stand on the cartoonist’s view of [the Estate-System in France on the eve of the French Revolution].”
➢ evaluation
- artist’s message
- agreement (arguments) [against the backdrop of the historical context; does history prove the artist wrong/right?]
- disagreement (arguments) [s.o.]
- your opinion, based on your argumentation (see above)
History Skills: How to analyse a cartoon (in general / in a history paper)
Step (task) 1: Analyse the given source.
➢ formal analysis
- artist, (caption?), date/place of publication, text type, source type, addressees, topic, intention, historical context (short!)
➢ detailed description (NO analysis, ONLY description)
Step (task) 2: e.g. “Put the source into the historical context [of the origins of the French Revolution] and explain the elements of the cartoon.”
➢ detailed analysis against the backdrop of the historical context
- historical context (detailed!)
- How do the elements of the cartoon relate to the historical context?
Step (task) 3: e.g. “Take a critical stand on the cartoonist’s view of [the Estate-System in France on the eve of the French Revolution].”
➢ evaluation
- artist’s message
- agreement (arguments) [against the backdrop of the historical context; does history prove the artist wrong/right?]
- disagreement (arguments) [s.o.]
- your opinion, based on your argumentation (see above)
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