Cartoon 1: “Fire!”
1). The key elements in this political cartoon are the torch bearing hand of the Statue of Liberty, and a fearful looking man, who is labeled “Hysteria,” and is frantically climbing a ladder with a large bucket of water in his hand. The man represents the American people and the hysterical state they were in at the time when Joe McCarthy, the former Republican U.S. Senator, was going about accusing Americans of being communists. The torch literally represents the liberty of Americans. 2). Herblock, Washington Post’s chief editorial cartoonist, is trying to persuade that America’s liberty and freedom was ...
