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Mccutcheon's Interpretation Of Political Cartoons
Macaul Mellor

Political cartoons are usually used to demonstrate an illustrator's point of view during any political issue or event. More times than not a cartoon is making fun of or strongly putting down whatever that political view is. In McCutcheon’s interpretation over ratifying the treaty of Versailles his illustrations demonstrate that he doesn't agree with that ratification. McCutcheon’s obvious disagreement is shown through specific negative characteristics of the people and the objects in the cartoon. Woodrow Wilson believed that it was right for the United States to ratify the
Treaty of Versaille, illustrated through the marriage if “Foreign Entanglements” and Uncle Sam. McCutcheon chose to conjugate the two in order to depict

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