The document is an exercise analyzing political caricatures from history. It includes a table with summaries of 5 caricatures depicting various social and political issues from the past. Caricature 2 depicts a farmer carrying a heavy pack, representing the suffering of tenant farmers under unfair treatment and injustice, being deprived of their rightful share of harvests. The cartoonist aims to expose this reality and awaken people to the need to obtain fair treatment. Overall the caricatures comment on issues like capitalist exploitation, American control over the Filipinos, and politicians manipulating people for political gain.

1. John Michael L. Manila October 6, 2021
History 11 (2:00pm-3:00pm) EDE-1B
Instructor: Mr. Renato Valdez
Exercise 2.5 Interpretation of the caricature.
Fill-out the table correctly as asked.
TEMPLATE
Caricature
Title
Objects/people that
you see
Meaning of each
symbol(objects/people)
Important
clues
Political or
social issues
presented
#1
A NewWrinkle in
the Art of Thriving
 Man (owner)
 Carabao
 NuevaEcija
 The Workers
The man or the owner
represents the greedy
city capitalist and
colonizers.
Carabao represents
strength and
perseverance.
Nueva Ecija represents
the place where it
happened.
The workers symbolize
the Filipinos who
suffers slavery.
It happened in
Nueva Ecija
Capitalists on
that time
used their
powers to
claim and
seize lands in
Nueva Ecija
and other
Central
Luzon
provinces.

2. #2
Why the
“Aparcero”Rebels
 The Farmer
 The pack
that the
famer is
carrying
The Farmer
symbolizes the
Filipinos who suffers
injustice and unfair
treatment in labor.
The Pack at the
Farmer’s back
symbolizes the
suffering and the
injustice experienced
by the tenant farmers.
Farmers
suffering of
slavery, unfair
treatment, and
injustice.
It portrays
the type of
landlord’s
kind of
treatment or
labor to
deprive
tenant
farmers of
their rightful
share of the
harvest.
#3
Public Post is not
a Hereditary
crown
 3 men
 Crown
Men as a center of life
Crown means power,
glory, immortality,
royalty, and sovereignty.
One man
offers his
crown to a
man who
kneels on
him, but the
other man
refuses.
A politician
gave the
power to
someone who
did not
deserve it.
#4
Uncle Sam
Riding a Chariot
 6 men
carrying the
chariot
 A man riding a
chariot
 The chariot
The 6 men carrying the
chariot represents the
situation of the people
who suffers injustice.
The man riding the
chariot portrays the
greedy capitalists who
makes the people
suffers slavery.
The Chariot represents
the life of a capitalist
who is full of
greediness and
selfishness.
The six men
took on the
role of horses,
pulling the
chariot in
which the rich
capitalist man
rode.
It shows
how
Americans
use relatively
harmless
objects to
exert control
over
Filipinos.
Americans
gained
control and
subjugation
over the
Filipinos.

3. #5
El Turno de Los
Partidos
 People
 Man at the
center
People the one who
experience the unfair
treatment injustice and
slavery.
The man at the center
portrays the role of a
politician who gives
goods and other
necessities to the
people to gain their
trust and win the
election.
The known
rich-man is
feeding the
people in
front of him
who are
basically the
ones who
work to him.
The problem
persists to the
present day,
with
politicians
switching
from one
party to
another
depending on
which party
is powerful at
any given
time.
Political Caricatures
II. Explain and discuss the following questions below.
1. What is the cartoonist viewpoint in caricature 2? Explain
The point of view of caricature 2 is that he wants to show us how politics deprive
tenant farmers of their rightful share of the harvest. And how the farmer was treated
unfairly.
2. Do you agree or disagree with the cartoon? Why?
Yes, because we continue to receive this type of treatment from politicians like
them. Despite the high quality of the product, they earn a low income. And this caricature
aids us in awakening and obtaining what we deserve.
3. How will you be able to interpret the cartoon?
My perception of this cartoon is there is one covered in sweat farmer who appears
tired and fatigued because he's been working so hard while carrying heavy sacks on his
back.
4. What is the cartoonist trying to point through exaggeration?
The cartoonist is attempting to portray a reality that many people fail to notice.
5. What is the irony in the caricature? What idea does it intend to emphasize?
The irony of the caricature is that the farmers who worked so hard to have something
to eat are the ones who will get nothing and are deeply in debt when harvest time comes.
It simply emphasizes the landowners' use of usury and unfair treatment to the farmers.